Gemini 8, NASA's crewed Gemini flight with Neil Armstrong and David Scott on a Titan II GLV from Cape Kennedy LC-19; they achieved the first docking of two spacecraft, then aborted early after a stuck thruster caused a near-fatal spin.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 11 Titan II GLV flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1966, 16:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II GLV
- Builder
- Martin
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 19, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1966-020
- Launches in 1966
- 22nd of 131
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