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View of the Gemini-Titan 1 (GT-1) Launch Vehicle on Launch Complex 19 at night. The launch pad lights are all on and there are spotlights in the background. The Gemini Spacecraft stacked on the Titan II (GLV-1 12556) is a Gemini structural simulator. The real Gemini Spacecraft was stacked on March 3.

Date: February 5, 1964

"Inside the Mission Control Center, flight controllers work during the Gemini I mission, an orbital test of the Titan-II launch vehicle.

The Mercury Mission Control Center in Florida played a key role in the United States' early spaceflight program. Located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the original part of the building was constructed between 1956 and 1958, with additions in 1959 and 1963. The facility officially was transferred to NASA on Dec. 26, 1963, and served as mission control during all the Project Mercury missions, as well as the first three flights of the Gemini Program, when it was renamed Mission Control Center. With its operational days behind, on June 1, 1967, the Mission Control Center became a stop on the public tour of NASA facilities until the mid-90s. In 1999, much of the equipment and furnishings from the Flight Control Area were moved to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where they became part of the exhibit there. The building was demolished in spring 2010."

Date: April 8, 1964

"Lift off from Launch Complex 19 of the Gemini Titan II booster with the GT-1 capsule onboard as a payload at 11:00 a.m. This is the first ever launching of a 2-man spacecraft and the first flight phase of the Gemini Program."

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Date: April 8, 1964

Gemini Titan II (GT-1) Launch Vehicle (SC-1/GLV-1 12556) standing along with the umbilical tower adjacent during a Wet Mock Simulated Launch test at LC-19.

Date: April 5, 1964

Gemini-Titan 1 during Electronic-Electrical Interference Tests with the launch vehicle erector lowered.

Date: March 1964

Workers lift Gemini 1 to mate it with its Titan II rocket.

"CAPE KENNEDY, PLA. PAD 19-the Gemini I spacecraft is raised to the top of the gantry for mating to the Titan II launch vehicle. Prime objective of the First Gemini-Titan II flight is to demonstrate the structural compatibility of the spacecraft and launch vehicle from launch through orbital insertion."

Date: March 3, 1964