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We’re out in front of him just a little bit. Where is the agena spacecraft Is the Agena still in orbit The Agena-D rocket upper stage is best known from the Gemini-era as the Agena Target Vehicle (ATV). The Agena space vehicle was used in large numbers during the 1960s and 1980s as upper stage with Thor, Atlas and Titan-3 boosters to launch a variety of military and civilian payloads into orbit. Ġ47:43:11 Lovell: As long as that tether doesn’t wrap around us, we’ll do it.Ġ47:43:18 Capcom: Flight doesn’t really think you’ll damp out in roll.Ġ47:43:24 Aldrin: Well, we’ve stayed well above him now for quite a while. What we’d like to have you do, if you’re willing, is Just to let the roll go and see if it will damp out after a while here. We’re showing you’re hanging in pretty good in pitch and yaw. If we only had a control system, I’m sure we could do this much better than even in the simulator.Ġ47:42:12 Capcom (Mission Control): Yes. It’s just beautiful and just perpendicular.
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A 100-foot tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle with the Gemini XII spacecraft” (original NASA caption for the photograph).įrom the mission transcript when the photograph was taken:Ġ47:42:01 Lovell: We’re in perfect shape.
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It had an overall length of 18 feet, 9.84 inches (.
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Baja California Sur is the peninsula on the right. The spacecraft consisted of a series of cone-shaped segments forming a reentry module and an adapter section. “The Gulf of California area as seen from the Gemini XII spacecraft during its 30th revolution of Earth. This superb photograph was taken looking south with the Hasselblad Super Wide camera and its 38mm lens. Connected by a 100-feet tether line over the Planet Earth, the two spacecrafts simultaneously completed a marvelous dance in the dark void of space.