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...rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target vehicle. He straddled his ship to steady himself. "Ride'm, cowboy!" called Command Pilot Pete Conrad exuberantly. "How are you doing?" "I'm tired, Pete," the dejected Gordon admitted...
...diameter, 100-ft., Dacron rope, slipped it over the end of Gemini's l-ft.-long docking bar and clamped it tight. As he crawled back toward his hatch, exhausted by that seemingly simple task, perspiration temporarily blinded his right eye. With that, Conrad ordered him back into Gemini's cabin, wiping out planned exercises with a hand-held jet maneuvering gun and a power tool for tightening bolts...
Apollo Simulation. Having taught so much with its failure, Gemini was able to demonstrate even more with its many successes. Within 94 minutes after their launch from Cape Kennedy, while they were still on their first orbit, Conrad and Gordon rendezvoused and docked with an Agena target vehicle that had been blasted into orbit only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little...
...fuel in a 25-second burn, the engine increased the Gemini-Agena's speed by 620 m.p.h. and shoved it into an orbit with an apogee of 850 miles-far exceeding Gemini 10's record height of 476 miles. As his ship approached maximum altitude, Conrad could not contain his excitement. "It's fantastic," he radioed to controllers at Carnarvon, Australia. "You wouldn't believe it. I've got India in the left window, Borneo under our nose, and you're right at the right window. The world is round...
Skip Rope Outside. By managing to secure the Dacron tether between the Agena and Gemini 11 before abandoning his space walk, Gordon had set the stage for the most spectacular of Gemini's maneuvers. On the third day of the flight, Conrad undocked Gemini and used his thrusters to back slowly away from the Agena until the 100-ft. rope was taut between them. As soon as the thrusters were shut off, however, both ships began to gyrate erratically, the rope oscillating between them. "It's like the Agena and I have got a skip rope between...