Gemini 5
Launch Date
August 21, 1965
Craft
Gemini
Status
Past
Crew
2
Gemini 5
Launch Date
August 21, 1965
Craft
Gemini
Status
Past
Crew
2
Overview
Lasting eight days, Gemini 5 proved the medical feasibility of a spaceflight to the moon and back. New electricity-producing fuel cells for Apollo missions were tested on this flight. But the crew found themselves on board with not enough to do.
Crafts
Gemini
Gemini was a two-person spacecraft designed to prove technologies and procedures for the Apollo lunar landings. Crews proved rendezvous and docking as well as transfer from one ship to another via spacewalk were possible. Gemini demonstrated that humans could live and work in space for the length of time needed for a lunar flight.
