Gemini ✅ Next up, Apollo At 3:46 PM #OTD in 1966, the last mission of the ♊ Program, Gemini XII, launched from Cape Canaveral! Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin successfully docked with the Agena target vehicle and Aldrin performed 3 spacewalks. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3TsDAq3 #NASAhistory http://nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/1591170403048849423#m
55 Years Ago: Gemini XII Closes Out a Successful Program
The primary objectives of Project Gemini included proving the techniques required for the Apollo Program to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.Kelli Mars (NASA)