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The Gemini program was conducted between 1964 and 1967 to give NASA engineers and astronauts …
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Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. Grissom inside their Gemini 3 spacecraft awaiting …
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any of a series of 12 two-man spacecraft launched into orbit around the Earth by the United States between 1964 and 1967. The Gemini (Latin: “Twins”) program was preceded by the Mercury series of one-man spacecraft and was followed by the Apollo series of three-man spacecraft. The Gemini program was chiefly designed to test the ability of astronauts to maneuver their spacecraft by…

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>	Gemini any of a series of 12 two-man spacecraft launched into orbit around the Earth by the United States between 1964 and 1967. The Gemini (Latin: “Twins”) program was preceded by the Mercury series of one-man spacecraft and was followed by the Apollo series of three-man spacecraft. The Gemini program was chiefly designed to test the ability of astronauts to maneuver their ...
>	Gemini (Latin: “Twins”), in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying between Cancer and Taurus, at about 7 hours right ascension (the coordinate of the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the Earth) and 22° north declination (angular distance north of the celestial equator). Its brightest stars are Castor and Pollux (Alpha and Beta Geminorum), Pollux being the brighter of ...
>	Ganesan, Gemini Indian film actor (b. Nov. 17, 1920, Madras [Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India—d. March 22, 2005, Chennai), was the “kadhal mannan” (“king of romance”) in southern India's Tamil-language cinema. Ganesan appeared in more than 200 films, beginning with a small role in Miss Malini (1947). His last significant screen appearance was in Avvai Shanmugi (1996), a Tamil remake of Mrs. ...
>	Gemini and Voskhod from the space exploration article In 1961 President Kennedy announced that the United States would send people to the Moon “before this decade is out.” In order to test many of the techniques that would be needed to carry out a lunar mission, particularly rendezvousing and docking two objects in space, the United States in late 1961 decided to develop a two-person spacecraft called Gemini. The Gemini ...
>	Schirra, Walter M., Jr. U.S. astronaut who manned the Mercury Sigma 7 (1962) and was command pilot of Gemini 6 (1965), which made the first rendezvous in space. He was the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs.
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	Gemini in astronomy, one of the 12 original constellations of the zodiac—the band of constellations that lies along the ecliptic, the apparent yearly path of the sun across the sky. Gemini, Latin for “twins,” lies between Cancer and Taurus north of the celestial equator—the imaginary line formed by the projection of the Earth's equator into the sky—and is visible from both the ...
	United States Mercury and Gemini flights from the space exploration article The first United States astronaut to enter space was Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (see Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr.). His suborbital flight, on May 5, 1961, in a one-person Mercury spacecraft carried him 115 miles (185 kilometers) above the Earth. On Feb. 20, 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth (see Glenn, John Herschel, Jr.). He completed three ...
	Schirra, Walter Marty, Jr. (1923–2007). U.S. astronaut Walter Schirra, Jr., was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, and he was the only person who flew in each of the three pioneering U.S. manned space programs—Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
	Borman, Frank (born 1928). U.S. astronaut Frank Borman was born in Gary, Ind., in 1928. He served in the United States Air Force as an officer and was selected for the NASA space travel program in 1962. He later served as NASA field director for space stations (1969–70) and as vice-president (1970–75) and president (1975–86) of Eastern Air Lines. With James Lovell, he set a flight ...
	Young, John Watts (born 1930), U.S. astronaut. John W. Young was born in San Francisco, Calif., in 1930. He served in the United States Navy as an officer and was selected for the NASA space travel program in 1962. He was a pilot on the 1965 Gemini 3 flight with Virgil Grissom and command module pilot on the 1966 Gemini 10 Earth orbital and docking flight with Michael Collins. In 1969 he ...
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