Gemini III

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Gemini III was the first manned flight of the program with Virgil Grissom as the command pilot and John Young as the pilot. Their spacecraft was named the Molly Brown, and they launched on March 23, 1965. They only had one objective which was an orbital maneuver by a manned spacecraft, and they were successful. It was also the first American spaceflight that carried two men into space. During the flight, Young hid a corned beef sandwich on board and tried to consume it, but it began to fall apart. Once they landed 84 kilometers short of their intended splashdown point, they were reprimanded for this action. Grissom would never fly into space again, but Young would make many more journeys into space. These will be discussed in later blogs.