Gemini 3

Gemini 3 is the first live mission of the Programme Gemini and the seventh American inhabited space mission.

Crew

Virgil I. Grissom (2), pilot commander
John W. Young (1), pilot

*Le number between brackets indicates the number of former space missions, that described here incluse

Objectives

This first manned flight of a vehicle of the Gemini program was especially a trial flight. In reference to a comedy in vogue with Broadway, Grissom gave the name of " Molly Brown" with the mission. It was the last time that a mission was named by a Astronaute. The main objective of this flight was to test the maneuvrability of the new Gemini vessel. In space, the crew fired engines of push to change the form or the plan of the Orbite carefully and to go down towards a lower orbit. Gemini 3 was the first American flight with two astronauts and the first flight where, during the re-entry, one could create bearing pressure to modify the point of touching on the surface.

Course of the flight

The only incident of the flight implied a sandwich of smuggling to the Corned beef , brought by Young in hiding-place. If Grissom, ordering mission, appeared rather amused, it was not at all the case of the doctors of NASA.

See the capsule Gemini 3

It is exposed to the Grissom Memorial, Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell, Indiana, the United States.

Sources

Kennedy Space Center: Gemini 3

Category: Program Gemini Category: 1965

Zh-min-nan: Gemini 3

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