More Details for 1964-11-17
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Gemini launch vehicle 2 and spacecraft No. 2 were electrically mated at complex 19.
The Joint Combined Systems Test was run the following day.
This was the first test of launch vehicle and spacecraft combined systems. It consisted of an abbreviated countdown and two plus-time flight simulations, one to exercise the primary guidance system, the second to exercise the secondary system. A second combined systems test, the Flight Configuration Mode Test (FCMT), was completed November 21 in preparation for the Wet Mock Simulated Launch. FCMT was essentially similar to other combined systems tests except that all umbilicals were dropped.