Gemini project
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The upper-stage Agena rocket, also known as the Gemini-Agena target vehicle (GATV), viewed from the Gemini 8 spacecraft during the first successfully completed rendezvous and docking training manoeuvre.
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Gemini 5 astronauts Pete Conrad and Gordon Cooper. They are walking on the deck of the recovery ship, aircraft carrier USS Lake Champion, after their week-long mission in August 1965.
US space programme (1965–66) in which astronauts practised rendezvous and docking of spacecraft, and working outside their spacecraft, in preparation for the Apollo project Moon landings.
Gemini spacecraft carried two astronauts and were launched by Titan rockets. Flights were designated by the double name Gemini-Titan.
The meeting of Gemini 7 with Gemini 6 in 1965 was the first rendezvous between two spacecraft.
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