March 23, 1965

Gemini 3 was launched by a Titan II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, manned by Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young. Reentry followed the third orbit. Voice communications were performed at 296.9 MHz with an output power of 3W. A backup transmitter-receiver at 15.016 MHz with an output power of 5W was also available.