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"Crewmen of USS WASP gather on deck to watch the recovery of the Gemini-6 spacecraft and astronauts. The Gemini spacecraft is being hoisted along the side of the ship by crane."

Date: December 16, 1965

NASA ID: S65-61888, 65-H-2285

Snapshots from the Gemini 7 mission, December 4-18, 1965.

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Happy Gemini 76 Day!!

On December 15, 1965 the first successful space rendezvous was completed by the Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 spacecraft

“I am not in the habit of looking back. When I do I am somewhat amazed that the only child of a dentist and a school teacher from a small town in Oklahoma was able to attend the Naval Academy, serve in the Air Force and fly in space four times.

Through it all… I kept my eyes on the sky. I still do and I hope I always will.” Tom Stafford.

We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race (2002) p. 269 by Thomas P. Stafford with Michael Cassutt.

RIP to an Apollo great (1930-2024)

Credit: Ralph Morse for Life Magazine

Credit: NASA S69-30252 (1969)

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Time to disembark. Astronaut Wally Schirra has the hatch opened on his Gemini VI capsule following splashdown, Dec 1965. He & fellow astronaut Tom Stafford had just completed the 26-hour mission which rendezvoused with Gemini 7 piloted by Jim Lovell & Frank Borman. It marked the first crewed rendezvous between 2 spacecraft. The pair came within 1 foot of one another and could have docked if they were equipped to do so. Gus Grissom and John Young, veterans of Gemini 3, backed up G6A.