Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) [3] was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini. It was the third crewed Gemini flight, the eleventh crewed American spaceflight (including two X-15 flights above 100 kilometers (54 nmi)), and the nineteenth human spaceflight of all time.

Oct 5, 2023 · Gemini V, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad was the third crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series. The flight was designed to last eight days and test rendezvous procedures.

Aug 28, 2020 · At 119 hours and six minutes into the flight, Gemini 5 became the longest crewed space mission, surpassing the mark set by Soviet cosmonaut Valeri I. Bykovski aboard Vostok 5 just two years earlier. Left: Shortly after splashdown, swimmers assist Cooper, left, and Conrad to transfer from their spacecraft into a life raft.

Gemini 5 Fact Sheet. By Cliff Lethbridge. Gemini 5 (NASA Code: GT-5) Launch Date: August 21, 1965. Launch Time: 8:59:59 a.m. EST. Launch Site: Launch Complex 19. Launch Vehicle: Gemini-Titan II GLV-5 (GT-5) Capsule: Gemini Spacecraft Number 5. Capsule Nickname: None. Crew: L. Gordon Cooper, Command Pilot. Charles Conrad, Jr., Pilot. Back-up ...

Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad was the third crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series. The flight was designed to last eight days and test rendezvous procedures.

Aug 5, 2015 · During the summer of 1965, the United States began to pull even in the space race with the Soviet Union. The eight-day Gemini V endurance mission doubled America’s spaceflight record set two months earlier. It also tested technology that would help make longer missions possible in the future.

Aug 29, 2011 · First American flight to seize duration record from Soviet Union. Mission plan curtailed due to fuel cell problems; mission incredibly boring, spacecraft just drifting to conserve fuel most of the time. Splashed down 145 km from aim point. Launched: 1965-08-21. Returned: 1965-08-29. Number crew: 2 . Duration: 7.96 days.

Aug 29, 2011 · Gemini 5 splashed down in the Atlantic just 90 miles off her intended target on 29 August 1965. The USS Lake Champlain was the recovery ship for the astronaut crew of Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad. Gordon Cooper was from Shawnee, Oklahoma, and was a Life Scout and Air Force pilot.

Dec 8, 2010 · The Gemini 5 mission. Audio files coming soon... Digitized, cataloged and archived by the Houston Audio Control Room, at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Aug 29, 2018 · NASA's Gemini 5 mission launched astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on a record-breaking mission (for the time) on Aug. 21, 1965. See photos from the historic mission here! Here,...