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Gemini. The Agena Target Vehicle ( / əˈdʒiːnə /; ATV ), also known as Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle ( GATV ), was an uncrewed spacecraft used by NASA during its Gemini program to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques, and to perform large orbital changes, in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions. [1]
Jun 1, 2015 · Gemini IV astronauts Ed White, left, and Jim McDivitt talk to officials on the USS Wasp recovery aircraft carrier on June 7, 1965. NASA. “Hey, Gus, we’re right over Houston,” said White. “We’re looking right down on Galveston Bay.”. At the end of the 20-minute spacewalk, White was exuberant. “This is the greatest experience,” he ...
: 189 The Titan II booster was not ready for final readiness testing until March 3, 1964, the same day that Gemini Spacecraft Number 1 arrived at the launch complex for mating with its booster.: 190 Faulty test equipment caused a further delay of two weeks. By late March, all serious hurdles cleared, Gemini 1's launch date was set for April 7.
Two and a half minutes after launch, the Gemini-Titan stack was 50 miles high, traveling 6,700 mph, and, with its two first-stage engines gulping 1,600 pounds of propellant every second, had ...
Mar 22, 2018 · NASA. The first manned Gemini mission launches from Merritt Island on March 23, 1965. The Gemini 3 spacecraft "Molly Brown" carried astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot, and John W. Young ...
A Titan II GLV booster sent Gemini III into orbit from pad 19 at Cape Canaveral. Within 60 seconds the vehicle was speeding upwards at 1,059 kilometres per hour, the crew pulling 2gs. By 2 minutes, still on the main Titan booster, they were travelling at 4,828 kilometres per hour.
