which was then making the first-ever two-week space flight. Gemini 8 would be the most complicated mission to date — the first time two objects docked in orbit. A radio-controlled “Agena ...

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a space radar. 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 ...

November 11-15: On the last Gemini flight, Jim Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin dock with an Agena and Aldrin makes three space walks, performing a number of physical tasks without undue effort.

Tumbling Through Space On the next Gemini mission, Neil Armstrong and David Scott docked their craft with an unmanned Agena craft before a harrowing problem with the engine cut the mission short.

As the name suggests, space docking is essentially a process by which two fast-moving spacecraft are put into the same orbit, ...