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 equipped with a ...

Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel cells. Gemini 6 made the first-ever orbital rendezvous, with Gemini 7, which was then making the first-ever two-week space flight. Gemini 8 would be ...

This timeline highlights the manned and unmanned tests of the Gemini Program ... to perfect both rendezvous and docking procedures in orbit around the Earth and the moon and to seamlessly ...

In October, when an Agena rendezvous rocket “backfired” and disintegrated in space, Schirra and Stafford were left sitting in Gemini 6 atop a Titan II on a Cape Kennedy launch pad. They were ...