aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) pulls up alongside the Gemini 3 spacecraft during recovery operations following the successful Gemini-Titan 3 flight. Navy swimmers stand on the spacecraft's flotation collar waiting to hook a hoist line to the Gemini 3, on 23 March 1965. Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young made history's first controlled re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
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