Gemini 1, NASA’s first uncrewed Gemini structural flight test and the maiden flight of the Titan II GLV from Cape Kennedy LC-19; the boilerplate capsule stayed attached to the second stage for three planned orbits and reentered after ~64 orbits.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 11 Titan II GLV flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 1964, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II GLV
- Builder
- Martin
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 19, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1964-018
- Launches in 1964
- 22nd of 100
See it in orbit
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