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* 1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.
1965 and Gemini
The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965 by Edward H. White, II from the second manned Gemini flight, Gemini 4, for 21 minutes, on a tether.
* 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States ' first two-man space flight ( crew: Gus Grissom and John Young ).
In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.
Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev orbited the Earth 64 times over nearly four days in space, August 11 – 15, 1962, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program ( 1965 – 1966 ).
" The first manned flights produced by this effort came from Project Gemini ( 1965 – 1966 ) and then by the Apollo program, which despite the tragic loss of the Apollo 1 crew, achieved Kennedy's goal by landing the first astronauts on the Moon with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
In 1965 Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and in 1969 was the first person to orbit the moon alone during Apollo 10.
Making the first manned flight of the Gemini spacecraft with Gus Grissom in 1965, Young scored another space " first " by smuggling a corned beef sandwich onto the spacecraft — a feat for which he was reprimanded.
Gemini 4 ( or Gemini IV ) was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965.
A Titan II GLV | Titan II launch vehicle lifts Gemini 4 into orbit, June 3, 1965. Launched from LC-19 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, Gemini 4 was the first flight to be controlled by the new Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, which had to conduct three-shift operations due to the flight's long duration.
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