The Manned Orbital Development System was created by the US Air Force Space System Division (SSD) in June 1962. It was to begin working on plans to use Gemini hardware as the first step in a new US Air Force man-in-space program called MODS (Manned Orbital Development System), a type of military space station that used Gemini spacecraft as ferry vehicles. The term Blue Gemini first showed up in August 1962 as part of a more specific proposal to fly six Gemini missions with Air Force pilots in a preliminary orientation and training phase of MODS. MODS was effectively superseded when the Manned Orbital Laboratory was announced in December 1963.
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- Gemini 3: Gus Grissom (Command Pilot), John Young (Pilot)
- Gemini 4: James McDivitt (Command Pilot), Ed White (Pilot)
- Gemini 5: Gordon Cooper (Command Pilot), Pete Conrad (Pilot)
- Gemini 7: Frank Borman (Command Pilot), Jim Lovell (Pilot)
- Gemini 6A: Wally Schirra (Command Pilot), Tom Stafford (Pilot)
- Gemini 8: Neil Armstrong (Command Pilot), David Scott (Pilot)
- Gemini 9A: Tom Stafford (Command Pilot), Gene Cernan (Pilot)
- Gemini 10: John Young (Command Pilot), Michael Collins (Pilot)
- Gemini 11: Pete Conrad (Command Pilot), Richard Gordon (Pilot)
- Gemini 12: Jim Lovell (Command Pilot), Buzz Aldrin (Pilot)
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