Gemini 5
Gemini 5 was NASA’s first eight-day crewed mission, testing long-duration flight, rendezvous procedures and the systems that would support later lunar missions.
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living encyclopedia entryGemini 5 was NASA’s third crewed Gemini flight. Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad spent almost eight days in orbit, doubling the previous American endurance record while testing rendezvous procedures and the fuel-cell systems needed for longer missions.
Led Gemini 5 and was responsible for the mission’s flight and rendezvous procedures.
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Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad, already present in the people collection, served as pilot and operated many of the mission’s experiments.
open person →Gemini 5 launched from Launch Complex 19 on a Titan II GLV, carrying Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad toward the first American…
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Gemini 5 released a rendezvous evaluation pod, a small instrument package that simulated the radar and navigation problem of…
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With the power-system warning under control, Cooper and Conrad continued the long-duration programme, alternating sleep,…
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After nearly eight days in orbit, Gemini 5 fired its retrorockets and returned to the Atlantic Ocean, where recovery forces…
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- Gemini 5 lasted 7 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes and 14 seconds.
- The flight doubled the American space-endurance record set by Gemini 4.
- A rendezvous evaluation pod simulated the navigation problem of approaching another spacecraft.
- A low oxygen-tank pressure forced the crew to conserve power and temporarily end the rendezvous exercise.
