Gemini IX mission highlights:

• Command Pilot Thomas P. Stafford, Pilot Eugene A. Cernan.
• Launched June 3, 1966 at 8:39 AM EST.
• Rendezvoused with Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) on third revolution, and two other times.
• Unable to dock with ATDA because shroud failed to separate.
• Cernan performed one space walk lasting 2 hours 5 minutes.
• Spacecraft splashed down within one mile of the recovery ship, on June 6, 1966, with flight time of 72 hours, 20 minutes, 50 seconds.

Photos from top:

Gemini IX crew

ATDA with shroud attached

View of Gemini IX nose during Cernan space walk

Splashdown

All photos by NASA.