BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On January 19, 1965, NASA’s Gemini II spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy (now Kennedy Space Center) in Florida. This suborbital flight marked the final test before the ...

He was a part of the Gemini 12 mission, which was his favorite mission, and Apollo 8, where he and his fellow crewmen became the first humans to leave earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon.