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Titan II GLV | Gemini IX-A

Gemini IX-A (Gemini 9A)

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Launch Details

Date: 3 June 1966, 01:39 pm UTC

Rocket: Titan II (Titan)

Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission

Type: Human Exploration

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

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

Mission Description

Gemini 9A was the seventh crewed mission of the NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot Thomas P. Stafford and Pilot Eugene Cernan. The astronauts rendezvoused with the Augmented Docking Target Adapter, but were unable to dock due to docking target's fairing which failed to deploy. The mission started on June 3, 1966, 13:39:33 UTC and ended on June 6, 1966, 14:00:23 UTC.