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On this day in space! Nov. 11, 1966: NASA launches Gemini 12 mission with astronaut icons Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell aboard


Gemini 12 was the last mission of the Gemini program and set the stage for the Apollo progam to land on the moon.

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