Gemini 7 was launched by a Titan II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, manned by Frank Borman and Jim Lovell on a fourteen-day mission. Station-keeping experiments were performed using the Titan II second stage. On December 15 Gemini 6A was launched. Gemini 6A caught up to Gemini 7 and rendezvous was technically achieved and station-keeping begun on the same day.