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On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: NASA's Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record after 2 astronauts spent '8 days in a garbage can'

NASA astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad spent "8 days in a garbage can" on the Gemini 5 mission in 1965.

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