After some discussion about how it could be accomplished, it was approved. The 6555th Aerospace Test Wing dismantled Gemini6 and assembled Gemini7 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19. Gemini7 was launched at 14:30 local time on December 6, 1965. Then the race was on to launch Gemini6 with Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford on board, which was accomplished at 08:37 local time on December 15. Gemini6 completed the rendezvous with Gemini7 at 14:33. The two craft came within of each other. At one point Schirra held up a sign in the window for Borman to read that said: "Beat Army". Schirra, Stafford and Lovell were all United States Naval Academy graduates; Borman was outnumbered.