On Dec. 26, 1963, ownership of the facility officially was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA. Now called the Mission Control Center, it continued to be the flight control through the first three missions of Project Gemini.
On Dec. 26, 1963, ownership of the facility officially was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA.
Now called the Mission Control Center, it continued to be the flight control through the first three missions of Project Gemini. The first two, Gemini I and Gemini II, were to qualify the Gemini spacecraft-Titan II rocket combination. The third mission, Gemini III, was the first manned mission of the program, flown by Gus Grissom and John Young on March 23, 1965.
The facility’s role changed to that of launch control center and a tracking station when the new mission control in Houston took over during Gemini IV.
Image credit: NASA
June 22, 1964