APPENDIX 8 - MANNED SPACE FLIGHT RECORD SUMMARY OF MERCURY AND GEMINI FLIGHTS
| Mission, crew | Date | Spacecraft flight time (hr:min:sec) |
Orbits / Revolutions | Mission Man-hours (hr:min:sec) |
Cumulative Man-hours (hr:min:sec) |
Recovery Area | Recovery Ship, U.S.S. | Significant Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MR-3 Shepard |
May 5, 1961 | 15:22 | - | 15:22 | 15:22 | Atlantic | Lake Champlain | First manned suborbital |
| MR-4 Grissom |
July 21, 1961 | 15:37 | - | 15:37 | 30:59 | Atlantic | Randolph | Second manned suborbital |
| MA-6 Glenn |
Feb. 20, 1962 | 4:55:23 | 3.0 | 4:55:23 | 5:26:22 | Atlantic | Noa | First orbital |
| MA-7 Carpenter |
May 24, 1962 | 4:56:05 | 3.0 | 4:56:05 | 10:22:27 | Atlantic | Pierce, Intrepid* | Three orbits |
| MA-8 Schirra |
Oct. 3, 1962 | 9:13:11 | 6.0 | 9:13:11 | 19:35:38 | Pacific | Kearsarge | Six orbits |
| MA-9 Cooper |
June 15-16, 1963 | 34:19:49 | 22.0 | 34:19:49 | 53:55:27 | Pacific | Kearsarge | Twenty-two orbits |
| Gemini III Grissom and Young |
Mar. 23, 1965 | 4:52:31 | 3.0 | 9:45:02 | 63:40:29 | Atlantic | Intrepid | First two-man orbital |
| Gemini IV McDivitt and White |
June 3-7, 1965 | 97:56:12 | 62.0 | 195:52:24 | 259:32:53 | Atlantic | Wasp | First extravehicular activity |
| Gemini V Cooper and Conrad |
Aug. 21-29, 1965 | 190:55:14 | 120.0 | 381:50:28 | 641:23:21 | Atlantic | Lake Champlain | Long-duration mission |
| Gemini VII Borman and Lovell |
Dec. 4-18, 1965 | 330:35:01 | 206. 0 | 661:10:02 | 1302:83:23 | Atlantic | Wasp | Long-duration, rendezvous |
| Gemini VIA Schirra and Stafford |
Dec. 15-16, 1965 | 25:51:24 | 16.0 | 51:42:48 | 1354:16:11 | Atlantic | Wasp | Rendezvons |
| Gemini VIII Armstrong and Scott |
Mar. 16, 1966 | 10:41:26 | 6. 6 | 21:22:52 | 1375:39:03 | Pacific | Mason | Rendezvous, first docking |
| Gemini IX-A Stafford and Cernan |
June 3-6, 1966 | 72:20:50 | 45.0 | 144:41:40 | 1520:20:43 | Atlantic | Wasp | Rendezvous, extravehicular activity |
| Gemini X Young and Collins |
July 18-21, 1966 | 70:46:39 | 43.0 | 141:33:18 | 1661:54:01 | Atlantic | Guadalcanal | Rendezvous, dock, extravehicular activity, altitude record (475 mi.) |
| Gemini XI Conrad and Gordon |
Sept. 12-15, 1966 | 71:17:08 | 44. 0 | 142:34:16 | 1804:28:17 | Atlantic | Guam | Rendezvous, dock, extravehicular activity, altitude record (853 mi.) |
| Gemini XII Lovell and Aldrin |
Nov. 11-15, 1966 | 94:34:31 | 59.0 | 189:09:02 | 1993:37:19 | Atlantic | Wasp | Rendezvous, dock, extravehicular activity |
| Total United States Flight Time (hr:min:sec) 1023:46:23 | Total Manhours (hr:min:sec) 1993:37:19 | |||||||
* The Intrepid picked up the astronauts: the Pierce retrieved the spacecraft.