A space capsule has landed at the Intrepid! Earlier today a Beech T-34 Mentor airplane and a replica of a Gemini 3 space capsule, touched down on the Air & Space Museum. The plane will be part of an interactive display, giving visitors a taste of what it was like to "bring planes to the flight deck." The capsule is a replica of the one that took part in the first American two-man space mission; "on March 23rd, 1965 Intrepid helicopters picked up Gemini 3 astronauts John Young and Virgil 'Gus' Grissom and their two-person capsule nicknamed Molly Brown" after they orbited the Earth three times. Allegedly the nickname was a reference to Grissom's previous incident with the Liberty Bell 7 capsule, which sank in the Atlantic. more ›