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Gemini V (Gemini 5)

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Launch Details

Date: 21 Aug 1965, 02:00 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 5 was the third crewed mission of the NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. and Pilot Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. The mission began on August 21, 1965, 13:59:59 UTC and ended on August 29, 1965, 12:55:13 UTC.