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Gemini 8
Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum
Wapakoneta, OH

Gemini 8

• Serial Number:2641
• Mission:Gemini GT-08
• Nickname:None
• Crew:Armstrong, Scott
• Launch Date:3-16-1966
• Flight Duration:10 Hours, 41 Minutes
Gemini 8 spacecraft on display at the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio. This is located on I-75 about half way between Toledo and Dayton. Gemini 8 nearly ended in disaster when a stuck thruster put the spacecraft into a rapid roll. The only thing that saved the flight was Armstrong pulling the abort handle.

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