51 years ago today the Omega Speedmaster is "officially" Flight-Qualified for future Gemini missions. Straight from the horses mouth in plain Texas speak he said......The March 1, 1965, date you are familiar with is not correct. Operational and environmental testing occurred between October 1964 and early 1965 culminating in the memo dated March 1, 1965. That memo simply reports the results of the testing and the intent to adopt the Speedmaster for future use and procure additional watches for the upcoming Gemini missions. Thus ends the Speedmaster history lesson for the day. *Typically the signed pieces document a specific time and that time is set on the watch. Since this piece has no time the watch is set to represent the date 06:01:65.