Launching of the first manned Gemini flight. The Gemini-Titan 3 lifted off pad 19 at 9:24 (EST) on March 23, 1965. The Gemini-3 spacecraft "Molly Brown" carried astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot, and John W. Young, pilot, on three orbits of Earth.


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