title: Pete Conrad
Gemini 3
Gordon Cooper
Mercury-Atlas 7
Gemini 9A
Neutral Buoyancy Simulator
Soyuz 18
Michael Collins (astronaut)
Mercury Seven
Soyuz 9
sentences: Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon.
 He set an eight-day space endurance record along with his Command Pilot Gordon Cooper on the Gemini 5 mission, and commanded the Gemini 11 mission.
 After Apollo, he commanded the Skylab 2 mission (the first manned one), on which he and his crewmates repaired significant launch damage to the Skylab space station.
 For this, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978.
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program.
 On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown.
 This was the ninth manned US spaceflight (including two X-15 flights over 100 kilometers), and the 17th world human spaceflight including eight Soviet flights.
 It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were shifted to a new control center located at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004), (Col, USAF), better known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States.
Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth flight of Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States.
 The Mercury spacecraft, named Aurora 7, made three Earth orbits, piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter.
 He was the sixth human and the fourth American in space.
Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.
 It was the 7th manned Gemini flight, the 13th manned American flight and the 23rd spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km ).
 The original crew for Gemini 9, command pilot Elliot See and pilot Charles Bassett, were killed in a crash on February 28, 1966 while flying a T-38 jet trainer to the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, Missouri to inspect their spacecraft.
 The mission was flown June 3–6, 1966 by backup command pilot Thomas P. Stafford and pilot Eugene Cernan.
 The astronauts rendezvoused with the Augmented Target Docking Adaptor, but were unable to dock with it because the nose fairing failed to eject from the docking target due to a launch preparation error.
 Cernan performed a two-hour extravehicular activity, during which he was planned to demonstrate free flight in a self-contained rocket pack, the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit.
 He was unable to accomplish this due to stress, fatigue, and overheating.
The Neutral Buoyancy Simulator was a neutral buoyancy pool located at NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
 Engineers and astronauts developed hardware and practiced procedures in this tank from its completion in 1968 through its decommissioning in 1997.
 Marshall recognized the need for underwater simulations of extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) and developed three successively larger tanks for the purpose.
 The Neutral Buoyancy Simulator contributed significantly to the American manned space program.
 Skylab, the Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, and the International Space Station have all benefited from the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator.
 Until Johnson Space Center constructed the Weightless Environment Test Facility in the mid-1970s, MSFC had the only NASA-owned test facility that allowed engineers and astronauts to become familiar with the dynamics of body motion under weightless conditions.
Soyuz 18 (Russian: Союз 18 , "Union 18") was a 1975 Soviet manned mission to Salyut 4, the second and final crew to man the space station.
 Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously (seven) was tied during the mission.
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) (Major General, USAF, Ret.)
, is an American former astronaut and test pilot.
 Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice.
 His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two extra-vehicular activities (EVAs).
 His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11.
 While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first manned landing on its surface.
 He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon.
The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts announced by NASA on April 9, 1959.
 They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1.
 They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963.
 These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.
Soyuz 9 (Russian: Союз 9 , "Union 9") was a 1970 Soviet manned space flight.
 The two-man crew of Andrian Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastyanov broke the five-year-old space endurance record held by Gemini 7, with their nearly 18-day flight.
 The mission paved the way for the Salyut space station missions, investigating the effects of long-term weightlessness on crew, and evaluating the work that the cosmonauts could do in orbit, individually and as a team.
 It was also the last flight of the first-generation Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft, as well as the first manned space launch to be conducted at night.
 To date, Soyuz 9 marks the longest manned flight by a solo spacecraft.

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 Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon.
 He set an eight-day space endurance record along with his Command Pilot Gordon Cooper on the Gemini 5 mission, and commanded the Gemini 11 mission.
 After Apollo, he commanded the Skylab 2 mission (the first manned one), on which he and his crewmates repaired significant launch damage to the Skylab space station.
 For this, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. 

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 Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program.
 On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown.
 This was the ninth manned US spaceflight (including two X-15 flights over 100 kilometers), and the 17th world human spaceflight including eight Soviet flights.
 It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were shifted to a new control center located at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. 

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 Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004), (Col, USAF), better known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States. 

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 Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.
 It was the 7th manned Gemini flight, the 13th manned American flight and the 23rd spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km ).
 The original crew for Gemini 9, command pilot Elliot See and pilot Charles Bassett, were killed in a crash on February 28, 1966 while flying a T-38 jet trainer to the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, Missouri to inspect their spacecraft.
 The mission was flown June 3–6, 1966 by backup command pilot Thomas P. Stafford and pilot Eugene Cernan.
 The astronauts rendezvoused with the Augmented Target Docking Adaptor, but were unable to dock with it because the nose fairing failed to eject from the docking target due to a launch preparation error.
 Cernan performed a two-hour extravehicular activity, during which he was planned to demonstrate free flight in a self-contained rocket pack, the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit.
 He was unable to accomplish this due to stress, fatigue, and overheating. 

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 Soyuz 18 (Russian: Союз 18 , "Union 18") was a 1975 Soviet manned mission to Salyut 4, the second and final crew to man the space station.
 Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously (seven) was tied during the mission. 

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 Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) (Major General, USAF, Ret.)
, is an American former astronaut and test pilot.
 Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice.
 His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two extra-vehicular activities (EVAs).
 His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11.
 While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first manned landing on its surface.
 He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon. 

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 The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts announced by NASA on April 9, 1959.
 They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1.
 They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963.
 These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. 

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 Soyuz 9 (Russian: Союз 9 , "Union 9") was a 1970 Soviet manned space flight.
 The two-man crew of Andrian Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastyanov broke the five-year-old space endurance record held by Gemini 7, with their nearly 18-day flight.
 The mission paved the way for the Salyut space station missions, investigating the effects of long-term weightlessness on crew, and evaluating the work that the cosmonauts could do in orbit, individually and as a team.
 It was also the last flight of the first-generation Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft, as well as the first manned space launch to be conducted at night.
 To date, Soyuz 9 marks the longest manned flight by a solo spacecraft. 

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Answer: Project Mercury