Editing Gemini 8 (section)

==Background==
Command pilot [[Neil Armstrong]] resigned his commission in the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] in 1960, and was selected as a crew member for Gemini 8 in September 1965. His flight marked the second time a U.S. civilian flew into space (after [[Joseph Albert Walker|Joe Walker]] on [[X-15 Flight 90]]),<ref name="Civilians in Space">{{cite web|url=http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-08/000736.html|title=Civilians in Space}}</ref><ref name="Space.com Joseph A Walker">{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_joewalker_061127.html|title=Space.com Joseph A Walker |website=[[Space.com]] |date=27 November 2006 }}</ref>{{efn|The [[Soviet Union]] launched the first civilian, [[Valentina Tereshkova]] (also the first woman), into space aboard [[Vostok 6]] on June 16, 1963.<ref name="Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova">{{cite web |url=http://www.adm.yar.ru/english/section.aspx?section_id=74 |title=Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova |access-date=2010-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423074712/http://www.adm.yar.ru/english/section.aspx?section_id=74 |archive-date=2011-04-23 }}</ref>}} and the first time a U.S. civilian flew into orbit.