The Sixties · Space
08/21/65 Gemini 5
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Gemini 5 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on August 21, 1965. Its flight lasted seven days 22 hours and 55 minutes. For a short time it held the record for longest flight. The two astronauts aboard were L Gordon Cooper jr and Charles Pete Conrad .
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