#virgil i gus grissom

The Gemini III spacecraft is mated with the Titan II launch vehicle in the white room of Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and John Young rode the capsule into space on March 23, 1965 for a mission lasting almost five hours. The pair of astronauts tested out the spacecraft on the first manned Gemini flight.