Photo #: NH 97511
Gemini IV Space Flight, June 1965
The Gemini IV space capsule is lifted aboard USS Wasp
(CVS-18) on 7 June 1965, after completing a 62 revolution flight
around the Earth in 97 hours and 56 minutes. The spacecraft,
crewed by Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White, landed
about 48 miles short of its target and some 400 miles east of
Cape Kennedy, Florida, at 12:12 PM Eastern Standard Time on 7
June. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Gemini
IV mission covered over 1,600,000 miles in the longest multimanned
space flight yet flown.
Caption information comes from the original NASA caption.
Official National Aeronautics and Space Administration Photograph,
from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
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