Crew:
    Neil A. Armstrong [1], Commander
    David R. Scott [1], Pilot

Backup Crew:
    Charles Conrad, Jr.
    Richard F. Gordon, Jr.

Launch:
    Pad: LC 19
    Date: 16 March 1966
    Time: 16:41:02 UTC

Flight:
    Orbits: 6.5
    Duration: 10 hours, 41 minutes, 26 seconds

Landing:
    Location: Pacific Ocean (25° 13.8' N, 136° 0' E)
    Vessel: USS Leonard F. Mason (DD-852)
    Date: 17 March 1966
    Time: 03:22:28 UTC

Only Gemini flight to be cut short by a malfunction: one thruster kept firing after rendezvous and docking with an Agena rocket.  The wild gyrations nealy caused the crew to blackout.  They undocked, hoping the problem was with the Agena.  It wasn't.  The reaction control system was shut down and the flight aborted.  Armstrong and Scott spent three hours in the water awaiting rescue.

Gemini VIII is located at the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, Wapakoneta, OH.