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Gemini 5

Mission Dates: August 21-29, 1965

Mission Duration: 7 days, 22 hours. 55 minutes, 14 seconds

Astronauts: L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Commander), Charles Conrad, Jr. (Pilot)

 

The objective of the Gemini V mission was to evaluate rendezvous Guidance and Navigation (G&N) system with the radar evaluation pod (REP), and to evaluate the effects of an eight day mission on equipment and the crew. The REP rendezvous was canceled after problems developed with the fuel cell.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: S66-59530

Date: 1966

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