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Gemini 3 at 50
Sunday, March 22, 2015 22:28
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Fifty years ago on Monday (March 23), NASA launched its first two-man crew on the maiden manned mission of the Gemini program. Gemini 3 commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom and pilot John Young orbited the Earth three times, during which they performed the first orbital maneuver by a crewed spacecraft. The two also set another, less important but perhaps better recognized first, smuggling the first corned beef sandwich into space.
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