Gemini 2

Designation	A05548 / 65U02
Launch date - time	19 Jan 1965 - 14:03:59 UT
Launch site	CC, LC19
Launch vehicle	Titan 2 GLV (#GT-2)
Mass (kg)
Payload	Gemini SC2
Sub-orbital flight:
Altitude	171.1 km
Landing date - time	19 Jan 1965 - 14:22:14 UT
Landing location	16deg 36m N; 49deg 46m W in Atlantic ocean.
Flight Duration (d:hr:min)	0d 0h 18min 16sec
Prime Recovery ship	USS Lake Champlain (CVS 39)
Distance	3422.4 km

Demonstrate reentry heat protection during maximum heating reentry; Demonstrate structural integrity of spacecraft; Demonstrate satisfactory performance of major subsystems; Demonstrate checkout and launch procedures; Evaluate backup guidance steering signals through launch.
Secondary objectives included: Obtain test results on fuel cell and reactant supply, cryogenics, and communications systems; Demonstrate and further flight-qualify GLV and spacecraft from countdown thru insertion. Train flight controllers and qualify ground communications tracking system.

The Titan II/Gemini launch vehicle had to be dismantled to protect it from 2 hurricanes in August and September of 1964. The 2nd stage of the vehicle was taken down and stored in a hanger on 26 August 1964 in preparation for Hurricane Cleo, but the entire launch vehicle was dismantled and removed from Pad 19 in early September before Hurricane Dora passed over the Cape on September 9th. The Gemini launch vehicle was erected for the final time on Pad 19 on 12 September 1964
Gemini-II had been scheduled for launch December 9, 1964. On that date the countdown reached zero and the stage one engines were ignited. The launch vehicle's Malfunction Detection System detected technical problems due to a loss of hydraulic pressure and shutdown the engines about one second after ignition.
Finally Gemini was launched on Jan 19, 1965 at 9:03:59 am EST and after a suborbit landed on January 19, 1965 9:22:14 EST at 16deg36m North Latitude and 49deg 46m West in Atlantic ocean. Miss distance from planned landing point 62.9km.
All primary mission objectives were achieved. All secondary objectives except fuel cell test were achieved. Fuel cell deactivated before liftoff.
The capsule was later refurbished and reused on a MOL test flight in Nov 03, 1966.

Launch cancel Cape Canaveral. Credit: #402

Launch cancel Cape Canaveral. Credit: #402

Prime Atlantic Recovery Ship "Lake Champlain" (CVS-39) cancel.

Prime Atlantic Recovery Ship "Lake Champlain" (CVS-39), Back 'B463'

Second Atlantic Recovery Ship "O'Hare" (DD-889), Back 'B460'

Second Atlantic Recovery Ship "Vogelgesang" (DD-862).

Second Atlantic Recovery "USS Forrest Royal" (DD-872) cancel.

Second Atlantic Recovery "USS C.R. Ware" (DD-865) cancel.

Ref.: #6b, #7, #400, #411 - update: 11.02.22