![]() Gemini 7 as seen by Gemini 6A | |
Mission type | Endurance test |
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Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1965-100A |
SATCAT no. | 1812 |
Mission duration | 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes, 1 second |
Distance travelled | 9,030,000 kilometers (4,876,000 nautical miles)[citation needed] |
Orbits completed | 206 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Gemini SC7 |
Manufacturer | McDonnell |
Launch mass | 8,076 pounds (3,663 kg)[1][2] |
Landing mass | 4,317.14 pounds (1,958.22 kg)[3] |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | December 4, 1965, 19:30:03 | UTC
Rocket | Titan II GLV, s/n 62-12562 |
Launch site | Cape Kennedy LC-19 |
End of mission | |
Recovered by | USS Wasp |
Landing date | December 18, 1965, 14:05:04 | UTC
Landing site | 25°25.1′N 70°6.7′W / 25.4183°N 70.1117°W |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 299 kilometers (161 nautical miles) |
Apogee altitude | 302 kilometers (163 nautical miles) |
Inclination | 28.87 degrees[3] Gemini 7 Mission Report (PDF) January 1966 |
Period | 90.54 minutes |
Epoch | December 9, 1965[4] |
![]() ![]() (L-R) Lovell, Borman |
Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII)[5] was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the twelfth crewed American spaceflight, and the twenty-first crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above the Kármán line. The crew of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell spent nearly 14 days in space, making a total of 206 orbits. Their spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.