gemini 6 and 7 completed 1st space rendezvous in 1967.
gemini 6 and 7 completed 1st space rendezvous in 1967.
when did gemini 6 and 7 complete 1st space rendezvous?
1967
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rendezvous was first successfully accomplished by us astronaut wally schirra on december 15, 1965. schirra maneuvered the gemini 6 spacecraft within of its sister craft gemini 7. the spacecraft were not equipped to dock with each other, but maintained station-keeping for more than 20 minutes. schirra later commented:









































he used another example to describe the difference between the two nations' achievements:









































section::::history.:first docking.
space rendezvous
spacecraft docking capability depends on space rendezvous, the ability of two spacecraft to find each other and station-keep in the same orbit. this was first developed by the united states for project gemini. it was planned for the crew of gemini 6 to rendezvous and manually dock under the command of wally schirra, with an uncrewed agena target vehicle in october 1965, but the agena vehicle exploded during launch. on the revised mission gemini 6a, schirra successfully performed a rendezvous in december 1965 with the crewed gemini 7, approaching to within one foot, but there was no docking capability between two gemini spacecraft. the first docking with an agena was successfully performed under the command of neil armstrong on gemini 8 on march 16, 1966. manual dockings were performed on three subsequent gemini missions in 1966.
docking and berthing of spacecraft