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Photos: Gemini 3 space flight 50-year anniversary

From the Space exploration galleries series
  • Mar 23, 2015
  • Mar 23, 2015 Updated Feb 6, 2024
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On March 23, 1965, the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program completed three orbits around the earth aboard their spacecraft nicknamed "Molly Brown."

The two man crew of John Young and Virgil Grissom, successfully tested the new maneuverable Gemini spacecraft and reached their splash down point 4 hours, 52 minutes after the flight.

March 24, 1965 front page.jpg

March 24, 1965 front page.jpg
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JOHN YOUNG WITH FAMIY

JOHN YOUNG WITH FAMIY

The family of Astronaut John W. Young beams proudly from an automobile during a trimphant parade in Cocoa Beach, Florida. The parade celebrated the successful historic flight of Gemini 3, America's first two-man spacecraft.

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GUS GRISSOM WITH FAMILY

GUS GRISSOM WITH FAMILY

Happily reunited at Cape Kennedy after Major Virgil "Gus" Grissom's historic three-orbital flight around earth, Betty Grissom and her sons Scott 14, and Mark 11, (foreground) posed with their now famous husband and father.

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GRISSOM SLAYTON AND YOUNG WITH SCHIRRA

GRISSOM SLAYTON AND YOUNG WITH SCHIRRA

Astronauts "Gus" Grissom, "Deke" Slayton and John Young ((left to right), get a kick out of Wally Schirra clowning in an old fashioned space suit liner.

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