1970’s USA NASA Gemini III First TWO ASTRONAUTS Flight Proof Silver MEDAL i96359

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Men In Space Series: Gemini III
USA Moon Landing Commemorative Medal
1970’s Silver Medal 35mm (23.77 grams) 0.925 Sterling Silver
FIRST U.S. TWO MAN FLIGHT YOUNG – GRISSOM, Capsule open in water, two astronauts within two portals.
GEMINI III MISSION: TEST ORBITAL MANEUVER ABILITY ROCKET: TITAN 2 ORBIT: THREE DISTANCE: 80,000 MILES MARCH 23, 1965, Logo above.

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G3C spacesuit Gemini 3.jpgGemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA’s Gemini program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. This was the ninth crewed US spaceflight (including two X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (62 mi)), and the 17th world human spaceflight including eight Soviet flights. It was also the final crewed flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were shifted to a new control center located at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.

The crew of Gemini 3 was changed after Shepard was grounded with an inner ear disorder in late 1963.

The mission’s primary goal was to test the new, maneuverable Gemini spacecraft. In space, the crew fired thrusters to change the shape of their orbit, shift their orbital plane slightly, and drop to a lower altitude. Other firsts were achieved on Gemini 3: two people flew aboard an American spacecraft (the Soviet Union launched a three-person crew on Voskhod 1 in 1964 and a two-person crew just a few days earlier on Voskhod 2, upstaging the two-person Gemini and three-person Apollo programs), and the first crewed reentry where the spacecraft was able to produce lift to change its touchdown point.

The mission also tested a system that had originally been designed for the cancelled Mercury-Atlas 10 mission, in which water was injected into the plasma sheath surrounding the capsule during re-entry. This had the effect of improving communications with the ground.


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YEAR

1970's

TYPE

Medal

COUNTRY/REGION OF MANUFACTURE

United States

CIRCULATED/UNCIRCULATED

Uncirculated

COMPOSITION

Silver

MPN

1970's United States 7c9fe1c9-eb9

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