Labels:text | screenshot | frog | cartoon OCR: A WEEK IN SPACE THE GEMINI 5 ASTRONAUTS Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad were the first people to spend more than one week in space. The flight was launched on August 21, 1965, and during the course of the 8-day mission, the astronauts achieved 120 orbits of the Earth. The flight proved that people could survive in space long enough to fly to the Moon and back. The Gemini 5 mission was the first to use fuel cells on a space flight. Essential on a long mission, these batteries combined RECORD BREAKERS After a record 8 days in space, Cooper hydrogen and oxygen to produce the and Conrad are recovered from their crew's electricity supply; a useful Gemini 5 capsule following splash down by-product of the cells was water. in the Atlantic Ocean.
