#gemini 11

[nocternalrandomness]

Gemini 11 on a Titan II GLV rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 19 at Cape Canaveral - September 12, 1966

[lonestarflight]

"The Gemini-11 spaceflight is concluded as the Gemini-11 spacecraft, with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., command pilot, and Richard F. Gordon Jr., pilot, aboard, touches down in the Atlantic Ocean 1.5-2 statute miles from the prime recovery ship, USS GUAM (LPH-9). Gemini-11 splashed down at 9 a.m. (EST), to conclude a three-day mission in space."

Date: September 15, 1966

NASA ID: S66-53547, 66-H-1214, S66-50749

[apollomission8]

Since my Apollo patch poll ended up getting more attention than I expected, how about everyone's favorite Gemini patch?

Chose based on patch design alone, not your favorite mission in general. Images below

Gemini 3

Gemini 4

Gemini 5

Gemini 6

Gemini 7

Gemini 8

Gemini 9

Gemini 10

Gemini 11

Gemini 12

Voting ended onDec 15, 2025

[elixir]

Rare Pictures From the Dawn of NASA Spaceflight Then newly released digital scans offer a rare high-resolution glimpse into NASA's Project Gemini, the precursor to the Apollo moon missions. via National Geographic — 2012

[astronotmovie]

Come on out! Pete Conrad emerges from the Command Module following splashdown of Gemini 11 in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept 1966. The penultimate mission of Project Gemini saw Conrad & Richard Gordon perform the 1st direct-ascent rendezvous with an AGT (Agena Target Vehicle). The G11 craft docked with the AGT on 1st orbit, just 94 minutes after launch. Backup crew for the mission were Neil Armstrong & William Anders.

[crownedstoat]

Agena!

[tranquilitybase11]

Neil Armstrong and Dick Gordon with Chilean children, October 1966

[gusgrissom]

Neat photo of Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon (aboard the Vomit Comet) during training for Gemini 11, 1966