Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule ... radar control and ejection seats. New Cast.

A Titan II rocket took off from Cape Kennedy and carried a 6,900-lb. Gemini capsule 99 miles high. No attempt was made to orbit; the capsule arched like a missile and plunged down at 16.600 m.p.h ...

There were those who thought that flying two spacecraft whizzing around the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour wouldn’t work, and Gemini sought to prove them wrong. To achieve this, Gemini needed ...