The Gemini Project

By NASA

  • Gemini 1

    Successful orbital test of the Titan-II launch vehicle, spacecraft structural integrity and launch vehicle spacecraft compatibility. Unmanned, no plan to recover. Mission terminated after 3 orbits and spacecraft disintegrated 3.5 days after launch. All primary and secondary objectives achieved.

  • Gemini 2

    All primary mission objectives were achieved. All secondary objectives except fuel cell test were achieved. Fuel cell deactivated before liftoff.It was unmanned.

  • Gemini 3

    All primary objectives were achieved except the controlled reentry objective was only partially achieved. The angle of attack during reentry was lower than expected. Secondary objectives were only partially achieved.It was manned and Virgil I. Grissom was the commander and John W. Young was the pilot

  • Gemini 4

    All but one primary objectives were achieved and all secondary objectives were met except one.This was manned and James A. McDivitt was the commander and Edward H. White was the pilot.

  • Gemini 5

    Primary and Secondary were both not achevied and this was manned and C. Gordon Cooper was the commander and Charles Conrad was the pilot.

  • Gemini 6

    All primary and secondary objectives were achieved.It was manned and Frank Borman was the commander and James A. Lovell was the pilot.

  • Gemini 7

    All primary objectives were achieved. Secondary objective on experiment D-8 Radiation in Spacecraft because stationkeeping with Gemini-VII interfered with the experiment.It was manned and Walter M. Schirra Jr. was the commander and Thomas P. Stafford was the pilot.

  • Gemini 8

    Gemini-VIII successfully docked with Gemini Agena target vehicle GATV-6 hours 34 min after liftoff. Because of problems with the spacecraft control system, the crew was forced to undock after approximately 30 min.he crew regained control of their spacecraft and it promptly landed in a secondary landing area in the Pacific.It was a manned job and Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott were on board.

  • Gemini 9

    The primary objective was only partially achieved and the secondary objective was not an attempt.It was a manned job and Thomas P. Stafford was the commander and Eugene A. Cernan was pilot.

  • Gemini 10

    It took 1 hour, 29 min.All primary objectives and most secondary objectives were met.It was a manned job and John W. Young and Michael Collins were on board.