Astronauts Gordon Cooper (left) and Charles Conrad , pictured at the back of a hangar after hearing that the launching of Gemini 5 had been postponed at Cape Kennedy , Florida. Weather conditions and a malfunction in the telemetery system forced project officials to scrub the launching. The Gemini 5 spaceship is scheduled to make an eight-day flight of 121 orbits around the earth 21 Augut 1965