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Gemini VII

Mission Number: GT-06 4-18 December 1965

Crew:
   
Frank Borman [1], Commander
    James A. Lovell, Jr. [1], Jr., Pilot

Backup Crew:
    Edwin H. White II
    Michael Collins

Launch:
    Pad: LC 19
    Date: 4 December 1965
    Time: 19:30:03 UTC

Flight:
    Orbits: 206
    Duration: 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes, 1 second

Landing:
    Location: Atlantic Ocean (25° 25.1' N, 70.6° 7' W)
    Vessel: USS Wasp (CVS-18)
    Date: 18 December 1965
    Time: 14:05:04 UTC

Longest Gemini flight, demonstrating the duration required for a lunar flight.  This was a very boring flight, except at the end when a rendezvous with Gemini VI was acheived.

Gemini VII is located at the National Air and Space Museum Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, VA.