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Profile of Agena Docking Target

Profile of Agena Docking Target

A profile view of the Agena Docking Target Vehicle as seen from the Gemini 8 spacecraft during rendezvous in space...Image # : S66-25782

LIFTOFF - GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - ATLAS/AGENA - CAPE

LIFTOFF - GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - ATLAS/AGENA - CAPE

S66-24465 (16 March 1966) --- The Gemini-Titan 8 (GT-8), carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot, was successfully launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administ... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - ATLAS/AGENA - LIFTOFF - CAPE

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-8 - ATLAS/AGENA - LIFTOFF - CAPE

S66-18616 (16 March 1966) --- Gemini-Titan 8 (GT-8) spacecraft, carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot, was successfully launched by the National Aeronautics and Space A... More

Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a spacecraft used by NASA to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions. This particular launch preceded the Gemini 12, which launched aboard a Titan launch vehicle one and one half hours later. The objective was for Agena and Gemini to rendezvous in space and practice docking procedures. An intermediate step between Project Mercury and the Apollo Program, the Gemini Program's major objectives were to subject two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, to perfect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicles, methods of reentry, and landing of the spacecraft. n/a

Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a s...

Launched atop an Atlas booster, the Agena target vehicle (ATV) was a spacecraft used by NASA to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the Apollo program lunar m... More

An air-to-air, left underside view of a BQM-34E remotely-piloted target vehicle flying at 10,000 feet over the Pacific Missile Test Center Range

An air-to-air, left underside view of a BQM-34E remotely-piloted targe...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Chris Holmes Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Astronaut Carl Meade mans pilots station during trajectory control exercise

Astronaut Carl Meade mans pilots station during trajectory control exe...

STS064-22-024 (9-20 Sept. 1994) --- With a manual and lap top computer in front of him, astronaut Carl J. Meade, STS-64 mission specialist, supports operations with the Trajectory Control Sensor (TCS) aboard th... More