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Gemini I

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Launch Details

Date: 8 Apr 1964, 04:00 pm UTC

Rocket: Titan II (Titan)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Test Flight

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 19, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Gemini 1 was the first mission in NASA's Gemini program. An uncrewed test flight of the Gemini spacecraft, its main objectives were to test the structural integrity of the new spacecraft and modified Titan II launch vehicle. It was also the first test of the new tracking and communication systems for the Gemini program and provided training for the ground support crews for the first crewed missions.