Gemini 11
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ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini
Key facts
- Mission type
- Space rendezvous Spacecraft docking Extravehicular activity
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1966-081A
- Satcat number span no
- 02415
- Mission duration
- 2 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes and 9 seconds
- Spacecraft
- Gemini SC11
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell Aircraft
- Launch mass
- 3,798 kg (8,374 lb)
- Landing mass
- 1,920 kg (4,230 lb)
- Members
- Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. Richard F. Gordon Jr.
- Eva duration
- 2 hours and 41 minutes
- Launch date
- September 12, 1966, 14:42:26 ( 1966-09-12UTC14:42:26Z ) UTC (9:42:26 am EST )
- Rocket
- Titan II GLV
- Launch site
- Cape Kennedy , LC-19
- Recovered by
- USS Guam
- Landing date
- September 15, 1966, 13:59:35 ( 1966-09-15UTC13:59:36Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- Atlantic Ocean ( 24°15′N 70°0′W / 24.250°N 70.000°W / 24.250; -70.000 ( Gemini 11 splashdown ) )
- Reference system
- Geocentric orbit
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Gemini spacecraft
- Part of
- Project Gemini
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Gemini 12
- Follows
- Gemini 10
- Duration
- 256629
- Mass
- 1920
- Orbital period
- 101.57
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
- Image
- Gemini 11 Agena.jpg
- Significant event
- splashdown
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- Commons category
- Gemini 11
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1966-09-12
- space launch vehicle
- Titan II GLV
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Richard F. Gordon
- orbits completed
- 44
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1966-09-15
- vessel
- Gemini spacecraft
- apoapsis
- 1368
- periapsis
- 298
- orbital inclination
- 28.8
- location of landing
- Atlantic Ocean
- recovered by
- USS Guam
- backup or reserve team or crew
- Bill Anders
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 19
- native label
- Gemini 11
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Encyclopedic overview
Gemini 11 (officially Gemini XI) was the ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966. It was the 17th crewed American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (62 mi; 54 nmi)). Astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon performed the first direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 1 hour 34 minutes after launch; used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a record high-apogee Earth orbit; and created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether. Gordon also performed two extra-vehicular activities for a total of 2 hours 41 minutes.
Crew
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gemini 11” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.