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Gemini
Where Mercury had been solely to get a man into space and return him, Gemini missions were aimed at getting two men into space for a longer period of time. These missions would be the stepping stone
for ultimately putting a man on the moon. The Gemini craft would, it hoped dock with another craft in anticipation of further space travel. The craft that took Armstrong to the moon was in two parts, one
that stayed in orbit, the other landed. If Gemini couldn't suceed in two parts joining up in space, there would have difficulty in getting American astronauts back from the moon. The third mission task for Gemini
was to land safely on a firm surface whereas the Mercury missions had landed in the Ocean and the astronauts retrieved by the Navy. The landing on firm surface was abandoned in 1964, I haven't been
able to find the reason why but I suspect it was cost or time restraints. Missions were two men as opposed
to the one man Mercury mission hence the name Gemini after the constellation of the twins.
| Mission Name | Date |
Captain | Crew Members | Duration |
| Gemini I | April 12th, 1964 | Unmanned | Unmanned
| 4 Days | | Gemini II | January 19th, 1965 | Unmanned | Unmanned
| 18 mins, 16 seconds | | Gemini 3 | March 23rd, 1965 | Virgil I. Grissom | John W. Young
| 4 hours, 52 mins, 13 seconds | | Gemini IV | June 3, 1965 | James A. McDivitt | Edward H. White
| 4 Days, 1 hour, 56 min, 12 seconds | | Gemini V | August 21, 1965 | C. Gordon Cooper | Charles Conrad
Jr
| 7 Days, 22 hours, 55 min, 14 seconds | | Gemini VI | December 16, 1965 | Walter M. Schirra Jr. | Thomas P. Stafford
| 1 Day, 1 hour, 51 min, 24 seconds | | Gemini VII | December 18, 1965 | Frank Borman | James A. Lovell
| 13 Days, 18 hours, 35 min, 1 seconds | | Gemini VIII | March 17, 1966 | Neil A. Armstrong | David R. Scott
| 0 Days, 10 hours, 41 min, 26 seconds | | Gemini IX | June 6, 1966 | Thomas P. Stafford | Eugene A. Cernan
| 3 Days, 0 hours, 20 min, 50 seconds | | Gemini X | July 18, 1966 | John W. Young | Michael Collins
| 2 days 22 hours 46 min 39 seconds | | Gemini XI | September 12, 1966 | Charles Conrad Jr. | Richard F. Gordon Jr.
| 2 Days 23 hours 17 min 8 seconds | | Gemini XII | Nov 11, 1966 | James A. Lovell Jr. | Edwin E. Aldrin
| 3 Days, 22 hours, 34 min, 31 seconds |
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