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Gemini 5 launch

Gemini 5 launch

1965. NASA launched the Gemini 5 spacecraft, August 21, 1965 at 0900 EST on a planned eight-day mission from Complex 19. Astronaut Gordon Cooper was the Command Pilot and Charles Conrad the Pilot. This was the longest manned spaceflight at the time.
Photo credit: NASA GRIN Image # : 65P-0160

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