NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special spacecraft just for the purpose. The Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV) was an Agena-D rocket equipped with a ...

Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel cells. Gemini 6 made the first-ever orbital rendezvous, with Gemini 7, which was then making the first-ever two-week space flight. Gemini 8 would be ...

In mid-December 1965, during the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7, Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7’s command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank ...

This timeline highlights the manned and unmanned tests of the Gemini Program ... to perfect both rendezvous and docking procedures in orbit around the Earth and the moon and to seamlessly ...

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On that same mission, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford caught up to Borman and Lovell in Gemini 6 and they flew in formation, the first rendezvous in space. The astronauts took the opportunity to ...

From fiery Aries' adventurous outings to Pisces' dreamy rendezvous, the zodiac signs each bring their own unique flavor to ...