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[NASA MEMORABILIA]. Group of 30 Gemini III Pinbacks Featuring Astronauts Virgil “Gus" Grissom and John Young. [N.p., 1965]. 30 identical pinbacks with the caption: “Unsinkable ‘Molly Brown' America's First 2 Man Orbit / Young - Grissom March 23, 1965). All pins approximately 3 ½" in diameter. Some light wear, soiling to versos. Generally fine. Gemini III was the first crewed orbiting mission of the Gemini program. This mission was Grissom's last spaceflight (Grissom would die in the tragic loss of Apollo I), and Young's first spaceflight (Young was the only pilot to fly 4 different classes of spacecraft - Gemini, Apollo command module, Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle).