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A Gemini-Titan launch vehicle lifts Gemini 8 into orbit, March 16, 1966. The Gemini spacecraft was launched into an 86-by-147-nautical-mile (159 by 272 km) orbit by a modified Titan II on March 16, 1966 (coincidentally the 40th anniversary of the launch of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket by Dr. Robert H. Goddard), at 10:41:02 a.m. EST ...
Gemini 6A achieved first rendezvous with Gemini 7 instead. GATV-5003 Gemini 8: March 16, 1966 15:00:03 UTC September 15, 1967 1966-019A: 7,117 pounds (3,228 kg) Achieved first docking, but mission soon aborted due to stuck Gemini thruster. ATV later used as secondary target on Gemini 10. GATV-5004 Gemini 9 May 17, 1966 15:12:00 UTC May 17, 1966
The Gemini spacecraft was equipped with a non-androgynous mechanism for docking with the Agena target vehicle or Augmented Target Docking Adapter. It was the first American craft that could dock to another in space. The Gemini side of the mechanism consisted of 3 latch receptacles around the forward end (the rendezvous and recovery section) of ...
On the revised mission Gemini 6A, Schirra successfully performed a rendezvous in December 1965 with the crewed Gemini 7, approaching to within 0.3 metres (1 ft), but there was no docking capability between two Gemini spacecraft. The first docking with an Agena was successfully performed under the command of Neil Armstrong on Gemini 8 on March ...
Gemini 8 Agena target vehicle Gemini 8 docking with Agena vehicle. The first docking of two spacecraft was achieved on March 16, 1966 when Gemini 8, under the command of Neil Armstrong, rendezvoused and docked with an uncrewed Agena Target Vehicle. Gemini 6 was to have been the first docking mission, but had to be cancelled when that mission's ...
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On later missions, the Agena's engine was fired while the Gemini spacecraft was docked, in order to boost the spacecraft to a higher orbit, and to bring it back again. During the Gemini 11 mission, an elliptical orbit with an apogee of 1,375 kilometers (854 mi) was reached, which set an altitude record for crewed spaceflight that held until ...
Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 rendezvoused in orbit in 1965, but without Agena. Next, Gemini 8 successfully docked with the Agena on March 16, 1966. The Agena-Gemini rendezvous also achieved other objectives in later Gemini launches, including docked orbital maneuvering ( Gemini 10 and Gemini 11 ), inspection of the abandoned Gemini 8 ATV (Gemini 10 ...