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'''Gemini 8''' (officially '''Gemini VIII''')<ref name="titans">{{cite book
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==Background==
Command pilot [[Neil Armstrong]] resigned his commission in the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] in 1960. His flight marked the second time a U.S. civilian flew into space (after [[Joseph Albert Walker|Joe Walker]] on [[X-15 Flight 90]]),<ref name="Civilians in Space">{{cite web|url=http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-08/000736.html|title=Civilians in Space}}</ref><ref name="Space.com Joseph A Walker">{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_joewalker_061127.html|title=Space.com Joseph A Walker|website=[[Space.com]]}}</ref>{{efn|The [[Soviet Union]] launched the first civilian, [[Valentina Tereshkova]] (also the first woman), into space aboard [[Vostok 6]] on June 16, 1963.<ref name="Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova">{{cite web |url=http://www.adm.yar.ru/english/section.aspx?section_id=74 |title=Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova |access-date=2010-05-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423074712/http://www.adm.yar.ru/english/section.aspx?section_id=74 |archive-date=2011-04-23 }}</ref>}} and the first time a U.S. civilian flew into orbit.
==Crew==
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