article_snippet: The Gemini programme was designed to develop and test capabilities that would ultimately land humans on the moon in spaceflight missions.
article_snippet: The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini 3, lifted off Launch Pad 19 at Cape Canaveral in Florida on March 23, 1965.
article_snippet: Gemini 3's primary goal was to test the new, manoeuverable Gemini 3 spacecraft.
article_snippet: The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini 3, lifted off Launch Pad 19 at Cape Canaveral in Florida on March 23, 1965, pictured left.
article_snippet: Pictured is the later Gemini 7 in orbit, as seen from Gemini 3 6 during a rendezvous mission in December 1965 .
highlights_snippet: The Gemini 3 mission launched from Florida on 23 March 1965 .
  