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Gemini X

Mission Number: GT-10 18-21 July 1966

Crew:
   
John W. Young [2], Commander
    Michael Collins [1], Pilot

Backup Crew:
    Alan L. Bean
    Clifton C. Williams, Jr.

Launch:
    Pad: LC 19
    Date: 18 July 1966
    Time: 22:20:26 UTC

Flight:
    Orbits: 43
    Duration: 2 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, 39 seconds
    EVA 1: 49 minutes
    EVA 2: 39 minutes

Landing:
    Location: Atlantic Ocean (26° 44.7' N, 71° 57' W)
    Vessel: USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)
    Date: 21 July 1966
    Time: 21:07:05 UTC

Docked with an orbiting Agena rocket.  Collins performed two EVAs totaling a little less than a hour and a half. The first was a standup EVA, terminated after 49 minutes when both Collins and Young experienced severe eye irritation from an unidentified source. During the second EVA, Collins lost his camera and had difficulties due to a lack of hand holds. He did, however, successfully retrieve a micrometeorite experiment.

Gemini X is located at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS, where it is undergoing restoration.