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Gemini 9 backup crew

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-gem09-10001

Date

2006-08-29

The Gemini 9 backup crew members are, Commander, Thomas P. Stafford and pilot Eugene A. Cernan. The back-up crew became the prime crew when on February 28, 1966 the prime crew for the Gemini 9 mission were killed when their twin seat T- 38 trainer jet aircraft crashed into a building during a landing approach in bad weather. Jan 05 1966.