Thursday, March 23, 1995

Gemini 3

  1965-024A


Gus Grissom and John Young rode Gemini spacecraft 3 into orbit in Mar 1965. They made history by changing a piloted spaceship's orbit for the first time. The mission checked out the tracking network, tested the OAMS engines, and verified the life support systems.

Retrofire was 101m/s aft, 32m/s down. Splashdown was at 22 26 N, 70 51 W, near Grand Turk Island in the Atlantic.


GT-3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Mar 23  1424.00  Launch from LC19 
 1426:32  T+2:32 Stage 1 BECO 
 1426:33  T+2:33 Stage 1 sep  -5933 x 141 x 32.3 
 1429:34  T+5:34 SECO Orbit insertion  
 1429:59  T+5:59 Stage 2 sep 
 1429:59  IVAR Sep burn 15s 4m/s? 161 x 224 x 32.6 
 1430:11  OAMS off 
 1430:21  T+6:21 Scanner and radar fairings sep 
 1557:00  Burn 1A 15 m/s 1:14  158 x 169 x 32.6 

 

1641:00  Burn 2B, plane change 0.02deg, 15s  161 x 225 x 32.6 
 1845:23  Burn, 29m/s peri lowered (109s) 
 1847:14  Burn complete  63 x 164 x 32.6  
 1856:28  Adapter sep  83? x 164 x 32.6 
 1857:23  T+4:33 Retrofire 
 1857:38  Retro complete  -242 x 148 x 32.76 
 1858:08  Retro module sep (Retro +45s) 
 1901:29  120 km interface 
 1905?  R+7:42 84 km  -320 x 142 x 32.6 IGS  
 1910:48  Drogue parachute deployed
 1912:30? Main parachute deployed 
 1916:31  Splashdown

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