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Titan, Gemini 12, liftoff
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Titan, Gemini 12, liftoff |
| Date of Image |
1966-11-11 |
| Full Description |
The Gemini 12 astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin lifted off aboard a Titan launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center on November 11, 1966. an hour and a half after their Agena target vehicle was orbited by an Atlas rocket. The Gemini Program was an intermediate step between Project Mercury and the Apollo Program. The major objectives were to subject are two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, to effect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicle, and to perfect methods of reentry, and landing the spacecraft. |
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Gemini 8 Launched by Titan B
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Gemini 8 Launched by Titan Booster |
| Date of Image |
1966-03-16 |
| Full Description |
A Titan booster launched the Gemini 8 spacecraft on March 16, 1966 from launch complex 19 Cape Kennedy, Florida. The flight crew for the 3 day mission, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott, achieved the first rendezvous and docking to Atlas/Agena in Earth orbit. |
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Space Station - early concep
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Space Station - early concept |
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Models of proposed space station launch vehicles (l-r): Saturn TB, Titan II Gemini, Atlas Agena. |
| Date |
04.19.1963 |
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Astronauts Stafford and Cern
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Astronauts Stafford and Cernan during Gemini 9/Agena Launch demonstration |
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Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (on left), command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot, in Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room at Pad 19 during a Gemini 9 / Agena Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. This test is a coordinated countdown of the Atlas-Agena and the Gemini-Titan vehicles (33406), Stafford (right foreground) and Cernan prepare to enter the Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room atop Pad 19. NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Corporation personnel stand by to assist with the insertion of the astronauts into the spacecraft (33407). |
| Date Taken |
1966-05-10 |
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Astronauts Stafford and Cern
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Astronauts Stafford and Cernan during Gemini 9/Agena Launch demonstration |
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Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (on left), command pilot, and Eugene A. Cernan, pilot, in Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room at Pad 19 during a Gemini 9 / Agena Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. This test is a coordinated countdown of the Atlas-Agena and the Gemini-Titan vehicles (33406), Stafford (right foreground) and Cernan prepare to enter the Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room atop Pad 19. NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Corporation personnel stand by to assist with the insertion of the astronauts into the spacecraft (33407). |
| Date Taken |
1966-05-10 |
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