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Gemini 3
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Gemini 3
Gemini 3
was the first manned mission in
NASA
's
Gemini program
, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965,
astronauts
Gus Grissom
and
John Young
flew three
low Earth orbits
in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed
Molly Brown
. This was the ninth manned US spaceflight (including two
X-15
flights over 100 kilometers), and the 17th world human spaceflight including eight
Soviet
flights. It was also the final manned flight controlled from
Cape Kennedy Air Force Station
in Florida, before
mission control functions
were shifted to
a new control center
located at the newly opened
Manned Spacecraft Center
in Houston, Texas.
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