Gemini 5 was launched

August 21, 1965
Gemini 5, the 11th crewed American spaceflight, was launched with L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr., on this date.

Gemini 5 doubled the U.S. space-flight record of the Gemini 4 mission to eight days, the length of time it would take to fly to the Moon, land and return.

And so it goes

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