Gemini 3, Card No 17 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)

The Race Into Space (Brooke Bond, 1971)

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Card No. 17: Gemini 3

23rd March 1965

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Gemini 3 was the first of ten highly successful operational flights with the two-man American spacecraft.

Flown by Virgil Grissom and John Young, it was launched by a Titan 2 rocket from Cape Kennedy on Mar. 23, 1965. It was placed in an initial orbit inclined at 33° to the Equator and varying in height between 100 and 139 miles.

After a 3-orbit flight lasting 4 hours 53 minutes the spacecraft was recovered successfully in the Atlantic.

The illustration depicts Gemini 4, with crew-member Ed White making the first American space walk, which was of 21 minutes duration.