)When Gus Grissom proposed to name his Gemini 3 capsule "Molly Brown"—a reference to "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", referring in turn to Grissom's Mercury 4 capsule which sank in the ocean shortly after splashdown – NASA officials were nonplussed and they abolished the practice of naming capsules.This prompted astronaut Gordon Cooper to propose and develop a mission patch for his and Pete Conrad's Gemini 5 flight