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Gemini with Agena on Earth
| Title |
Gemini with Agena on Earth |
| Full Description |
Gemini 6 spacecraft (right) and Agena Target Vehicle (left) on the Boresight Range Tower for at the Kennedy Space Center to test the two spacecrafts? docking capability. Agena was designed to launch separately from Gemini and act as a target for astronauts in a Gemini spacecraft to rendezvous with. Gemini 6 was slated to be the first mission to dock with Agena, but a malfunction with the unmanned target resulted in new objectives for Gemini 6 calling for a one day rendezvous with Gemini 7 in December, 1965. |
| Date |
1965 |
| NASA Center |
Johnson Space Center |
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle
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| Title |
Agena Target Docking Vehicle photographed from Gemini 10 spacecraft |
| Description |
Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005 is photographed from the Gemini 10 spacecraft during rendezvous in space. The two spacecraft are about 38 ft. apart. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Gemini 10 spacecraft success
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| Title |
Gemini 10 spacecraft successfully docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle |
| Description |
The Gemini 10 spacecraft is successfully docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005. The Agena display panel is clearly visible as is glow from Agena's primary propulsion system. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Gemini 10 spacecraft success
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| Title |
Gemini 10 spacecraft successfully docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle |
| Description |
The Gemini 10 spacecraft is successfully docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005. The Agena display panel is clearly visible. After docking with the Agena, Astronauts John Young and Michael Collins fired the 16,000 lb. thrust engine of Agena 10's primary propulsion system to boost the combined vehicles into an orbit with an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new altitude record for manned spaceflight. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle
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| Title |
Agena Target Docking Vehicle photographed from Gemini 10 spacecraft |
| Description |
Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005 is photographed from the Gemini 10 spacecraft during rendezvous in space. The docking adapter is turning towards the spacecraft. Both vehicles are about 24 ft. apart. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Debris on spacecraft window
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Debris on spacecraft window as seen from inside Gemini 10 spacecraft |
| Description |
Debris on spacecraft window as seen from inside Gemini 10 spacecraft. At this time Gemini 10 was docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle
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| Title |
Agena Target Docking Vehicle photographed from Gemini 10 spacecraft |
| Description |
Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005 is photographed from the Gemini 10 spacecraft during rendezvous in space. The two spacecraft are about 41 ft. apart. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Areas of Sudan and Egypt as
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| Title |
Areas of Sudan and Egypt as seen from Gemini 11 spacecraft |
| Description |
Libyan Desert area of Sudan, foreground, and the United Arab Republic (Egypt), at lower left, as seen from the Gemini 11 spacecraft at an altitude of 300 nautical miles during its 27th revolution of the earth. In view is the Nile River from Biba in Egypt to Khartoum in the Sudan. The Red Sea is in background. At upper left is the Arabian Peninsula. At top right is Ethiopia. Note L-band antenna of the Agena Target Vehicle. |
| Date Taken |
1966-09-14 |
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Gemini 11 spacecraft and Age
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| Title |
Gemini 11 spacecraft and Agena Target Vehicle during tethering |
| Description |
A 100 ft. tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle with the Gemini 11 spacecraft during its 32nd revolution of the earth. |
| Date Taken |
1966-09-14 |
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Gemini 11 spacecraft and Age
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| Title |
Gemini 11 spacecraft and Agena Target Vehicle as seen during EVA |
| Description |
The Gemini 11 spacecraft is docked to the Agena Target Vehicle in this photograph taken by Pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr. as he stood in the open hatch of the Gemini 11 spacecraft during his extravehicular activity. Note Agena's L-band antenna. Photo was taken during Gemini 11's 29th revolution of the earth. |
| Date Taken |
1966-09-13 |
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Gemini 11 spacecraft and Age
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| Title |
Gemini 11 spacecraft and Agena Target Vehicle during tethering |
| Description |
The Agena Target Docking Vehicel is tethered to the Gemini 11 spacecraft during its 31st revolution of the earth. Area below is the Gulf of California and Baja California at La Paz. |
| Date Taken |
1966-09-14 |
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Western Australia as seen fr
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| Title |
Western Australia as seen from Gemini 11 spacecraft |
| Description |
Western half of Australia, includeing the coastline from Perth to Port Darwin, looking west, as seen from the Gemini 11 spacecraft during its 26th revolution of the earth. Photograph was made while the spacecraft was at a record-high apogee of 740 nautical miles. Note L-band antenna of the Agena Taget Vehicle. |
| Date Taken |
1966-09-14 |
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Mexico, Arizona and New Mexi
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| Title |
Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico as seen from the Gemini 12 spacecraft |
| Description |
Northern portion of Sonora, Mexico, southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, as seen from the Gemini 12 spacecraft during its 30th revolution of the earth. Includes the Tucson, Phoenix, Mogollon Rim, and Painted Desert areas. A 100 ft. tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle with the Gemini 12 spacecraft. |
| Date Taken |
1966-11-13 |
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View of Agena Docking vehicl
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| Title |
View of Agena Docking vehicle and tetherline connected to Gemini 12 craft |
| Description |
A 100 ft. tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle with the Gemini 12 spacecraft during its 32nd revolution of the earth. Clouds over Pacific Ocean are in the background. |
| Date Taken |
1966-11-13 |
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View of the Agena Target Doc
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| Title |
View of the Agena Target Docking Vehicle as seen from Gemini 12 spacecraft |
| Description |
Stero and side view of the Agena Target Docking Vehicle as seen from the Gemini 12 spacecraft during rendezvous and docking mission in space. The two spacecraft are 50 ft. apart. |
| Date Taken |
1966-11-11 |
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Gulf of California as seen f
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| Title |
Gulf of California as seen from the Gemini 12 spacecraft |
| Description |
Gulf of California as seen from the Gemini 12 spacecraft during its 30th revolution of the earth. Baja California Sur is the peninsula on the left. At lower left is the mainland of Mexico. A 100 ft. tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle with the Gemini 12 spacecraft. View is looking south. |
| Date Taken |
1966-11-13 |
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