The launch of Gemini 9 from Kennedy Space Center. It was flown by Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan. These two astronauts were the back-up crew but they flew the mission when the original prime crew Elliot See and Charles Basset were killed in an aviation accident.


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