1965: Gemini 3 (NASA)

This first manned flight of the Gemini spacecraft was very much a test flight. In a playful reference to the Broadway hit The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Grissom nicknamed the Gemini 3 spacecraft “Molly Brown,“ hoping that it would not duplicate his experience with Liberty Bell 7. (It was the last Gemini to be named by an astronaut.) The mission’s primary goal was to test the new, manoeuverable Gemini spacecraft. In space, the crew fired thrusters to change the shape of their orbit, shift their orbital plane sl