Gemini 9 launch view

S66-34064 (3 June 1966) ?-- The Gemini-9 spacecraft, carrying astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot, was successfully launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from the Kennedy Space Center?s Launch Complex 19 at 8:39 a.m. (EST), June 3, 1966. Photo credit: NASA