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View from astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Gemini 12 pilot, after docking with Agena Target Vehicle during orbit no. 13. Taken over Mexico, Mexico City
Date: November 12, 1966
NASA ID: S66-62888
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View from astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Gemini 12 pilot, after docking with Agena Target Vehicle during orbit no. 13. Taken over Mexico, Mexico City
Date: November 12, 1966
NASA ID: S66-62888
Double exposure photo of the Gemini-Titan VIII (SC8/62-12563) and Atlas-Agena rocket launch.
Date: March 16, 1966
Science Photo Library: C007/4354
NASA ID: 66-H-113
"An Agena Target Docking Vehicle #11 atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 6:05 a.m. (EST). The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini-11 spacecraft."
Date: September 12, 1966
NASA ID: S66-50724, KSC-66PC-0261, KSC-66C-7697, S66-50784
'Really a Smoothie': 50 Years Since the Traumatic Mission of Gemini VIII (Part 1)
‘Really a Smoothie’: 50 Years Since the Traumatic Mission of Gemini VIII (Part 1)
Gemini VIII (foreground) enters into the final stages of rendezvous with the Agena target vehicle. Photo Credit: NASA At the dawn of 1966, America’s drive to land a man on the Moon had accelerated into high gear. Five Gemini crews had shown that astronauts could survive in space for long enough to complete the journey and that it was possible to venture outside in a pressurized suit and perfect…
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