Remnant Of Past Space Flight Returns To Cape Canaveral

A 27 foot long fragment of the Titan booster that propelled Gemini 5 into space with two astronauts… Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad… nearly 60 years ago, has finally made it back to Cape Canaveral… where it launched from. Gemini 5 was an eight-day mission in August 1965, that proved astronauts could stay in space long enough to fly to the moon and back. It’s the only launched-and-recovered Titan booster in existence. In fact, it represents the only retrieved booster from the entire crewed space program leading up to the Space Shuttle in 1981. It will be put on display at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum, which houses restored ballistic missiles and other items. The museum is on base, and currently not generally open to the public, although it is sometimes made available to the public through tickets at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.