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 * Category 1 – Mercury & Gemini **
 * Mercury PROGRAM || NASA Past ||
 * Gemini PROGRAM || NASA Past ||

NASA PAST Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html

http://www.footageland.com/clips/nasa/mercury_launch.mov

http://www.footageland.com/clips/nasa/mercury_launch_wide.mov

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gemini/index.html

Building on the Mercury successes, NASA soon expanded its manned space flight program to include the development of a two-man spacecraft dubbed Gemini.

It was named after the third constellation of the zodiac, featuring the twin stars Castor and Pollux.

September 12, 1966 it was launched