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Gemini Replaces Mercury As Major Space Project
Project Mercury ends and Gemini takes over with two man crews and extended orbital flights. Gemini aims for lunar missions before 1970, with uncrewed and crewed tests, rendezvous experiments, and a later glide-landing system as NASA eyes moon and planetary exploration.
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Gemini
Mercury
Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Air Force
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Andre J. Meyer Jr
Stanley White
Manned Spacecraft Center
Agena
Atlas
Space
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
McDonnell Aircraft Co
St. Louis
NASA