NASA launched the Gemini 5 spacecraft, August 21, 1965 at 0900 EST on a planned eight-day mission from Complex 19. Astronaut Gordon Cooper was the Command Pilot and Charles Conrad the Pilot. This was the longest manned spaceflight at the time.

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