Manufactured for Lockheed by Bell Aircraft Corp., the Agena rocket has been used in its original single-shot version as the second stage of the Thor rocket, which has successfully injected six of ...

Ranger 8 lifted off from Cape Kennedy, now Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 17, 1965. The Atlas-Agena rocket first placed the spacecraft into Earth orbit before sending it on a lunar trajectory.

The Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV) was an Agena-D rocket equipped with a docking adapter into which the nosecone of a Gemini capsule could fit. The unmanned GATV would be launched separately ...

Nestled in the nose of a two-stage Atlas-Agena rocket, the spidery, gold and silvery Ranger took off from Cape Kennedy and arced neatly into a perfect orbit. When it had coasted for 19.5 minutes ...

There was a retro-rocket pack — designed to slow Glenn ... A radio-controlled “Agena target vehicle” would be put in orbit first; then Gemini 8 would launch, catch up to the Agena, and ...