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Recovered Gemini 5 rocket stage returns to launch site

The first U.S. rocket stage to be recovered after its launch has landed a new home not far from where it lifted off almost 60 years ago.

The Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum on Thursday (Jan. 19) took delivery of the booster segment (opens in new tab) that helped launch NASA astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles “Pete” Conrad on the Gemini-Titan 5 (GT-5) mission on Aug. 21, 1965. The 27-foot-long (8 meters) section of the Titan II rocket first stage had been at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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