Mission type Test flight 1965

The Gemini III mission was supported by 126 aircraft & 27 ships from the United States Department of Defense. Gemini 3 (officially Gemini III) was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, at the end of the first orbit, over Corpus Christi, Texas. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom & John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. The U.S. state of Indiana, It was the first U.S. mission in which the crew fired thrusters to change the size and shape of their orbit, a key test of spacecraft maneuverability vital for planned flights to the Moon. It was also the final crewed flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were moved to a new control center at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. Astronauts John Young & Gus Grissom walk up the ramp leading to the elevator that will carry them to the spacecraft for the first crewed Gemini mission.