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Gemini 8
Summary
Gemini 8 (officially Gemini VIII) was the sixth crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was launched on March 16, 1966, and was the 14th crewed American flight and the 22nd crewed spaceflight overall. The mission conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, but also suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U.S. spacecraft which threatened the lives of the astronauts and required an immediate abort of the mission. The crew returned to Earth safely.
Flown by pilot David Scott and command pilot Neil Armstrong, the flight marked the second time a U.S. civilian flew into space and the first time a U.S. civilian flew into orbit.
Command pilot Neil Armstrong resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1960.( On August 29, 1951, Armstrong saw action in the Korean War as an escort for a photo reconnaissance plane over Songjin.[23]) His flight marked the second time a U.S. civilian flew into space (after Joe Walker on X-15 Flight 90), and the first time a U.S. civilian flew into orbit.
This became the prime crew on Gemini 11.
Walter Cunningham (Cape CAPCOM)
James A. Lovell (Houston CAPCOM)
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Perigee (min):
Apogee (max):
Inclination: 28.91°
Period: 88.83 min
March 16, 1966
Docked: 23:14 UTC
Undocked: ~23:45 UTC
Gemini VIII was planned to be a three-day mission. After being launched into an orbit, on the fourth revolution it was to rendezvous and dock with an Agena target vehicle, which had been earlier launched into a circular orbit. This was to be the first space docking in history. Four separate dockings were planned.
During the first docking, Pilot David Scott planned to perform an ambitious, two-hour-and-10-minute extra-vehicular activity (EVA), which would have been the first since Ed White's June 1965 spacewalk on Gemini IV. On a tether for one and a half revolutions around the Earth, Scott would have retrieved a nuclear emulsion radiation experiment from the front of the Gemini's spacecraft adapter, then activate a micrometeoroid experiment on the Agena.
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