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GEMINI 5 · CHAPTER 1 OF 4 · 21 August 1965
Launch and the eight-day challenge
Gemini 5 launched from Launch Complex 19 on a Titan II GLV, carrying Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad toward the first American mission planned to last eight days.
The flight’s central test was endurance: the crew, spacecraft and fuel-cell power system had to remain reliable far longer than on previous American missions.
The launch vehicle placed Gemini 5 into orbit, beginning a programme of experiments designed to prepare NASA for lunar flight.
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◉ REÁLNÉ FOTOStart rakety Titan II GLV s Gemini 5 z rampy 19.KEY CHAPTER DATA
čas startu21. 8. 1965, 13:59 UTC
nosičTitan II GLV
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