Gemini VI-A
Titan II GLV
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Crew
Wally Schirra
Status: Deceased
3/12/1923 - 5/3/2007
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/3/1962
Last Flight: 10/11/1968
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put human beings in space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7. At the time of his mission in Sigma 7, Schirra became the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first manned launch for the Apollo program.
Thomas P. Stafford
Status: Retired
9/17/1930 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 12/15/1965
Last Flight: 7/15/1975
Thomas Patten Stafford is an American former Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
Mission
Gemini VI-A (Gemini 6A)
Type: Human Exploration
Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed mission of the NASA’s Project Gemini. The mission was commaned by Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford. The mission achieved the first rewed 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.
Location
Launch Complex 19
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
851 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Type: Government
Abbreviation: NASA
Administration: Administrator: Bill Nelson
Founded: 1958
Launchers: Space Shuttle | SLS
Spacecraft: Orion
Country: USA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
