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Titan II GLV | Gemini VI-A

Gemini VI-A (Gemini 6A)

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Launch Details

Date: 15 Dec 1965, 01:37 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 6A was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commanded by Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford. The mission achieved the first crewed rendezvous with the Gemini 7 spacecraft. The mission began on December 15, 1965, 13:37:26 UTC and ended on December 16, 1965, 15:28:50 UTC.