Photo #: NH 97442
Gemini Titan 2 Suborbital Test, 19 January 1965
"U.S.S. Lake Champlain -- Navy frogmen place the
floatation collar around the Gemini Titan 2 spacecraft. The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the spacecraft
from Cape Kennedy, Jan. 19, 1965 at 9:03 and it was recovered
by the recovery forces aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain
some 2100 miles downrange at 10:45 a.m. Flight time was 19:03
minutes. Actual landing was 16 miles short of the programmed
landing area."
Quoted from the original caption released by NASA with this photograph.
Lake Champlain (CVS-39) is in the background. One of her
SH-3 helicopters is hovering over the spacecraft.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Photograph,
from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
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