The Gemini Mission was a mission that had 12 different missions within the project. Each mission had the same purpose, “rendezvous and docking techniques with orbiting spacecraft, extravehicular activity, long duration flight, and guided spacecraft reentry” (Angelo). The purposes were spaced out throughout each one, but there was always the same concept of the main purpose in each of the separate missions.These purposes had to be completed to make the Apollo Mission a success. The Apollo Mission was designed to have man land on the moon. The mission was designed to meet the purposes by having the separate missions.
The Gemini program began in 1961 after the Apollo Project had begun, but it did not start officially until 1965. The Gemini Project
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The missions were stated before the spacecraft was launched, and they were all successful. The mission is not going on today. One of the main purposes of the program was to gather information for the Apollo Mission which wanted to put man on the moon. There has been no traces of the mission being revised as of today.
There were many things that were learned and had to be learned in order to complete the missions. Before they were put into orbit to land on the moon, they had to learn how to complete the Mercury missions. They had to travel in space before landing on the moon. The Gemini missions proved that all of the things they had to do, before the Apollo mission could be successful, could be done. During the Gemini missions, astronauts walked in space, have more than done astronaut in space, and spend many days in space. All of these things were needed to complete the Apollo mission.
During 1961-1966, the Gemini Program costed about $1.3 billion. This was about double the cost of the Mercury missions. This cost was a reasonable cost because it was over seven years. Today, the mission would cost about $ 7.3 billion. For each of the piloted missions, it would cost $723 million