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During his EVA, Gordon will attach one end of a 100-ft. Dacron tether to Gemini 11, then float over to attach the tether's other end to the Agena. With hatch closed, the crew will back off until the tether is taut, then try to create artificial gravity within the spacecraft by twirling it, like a bucket at the end of a line. The 100-ft. hobble may also prove to be an efficient method of stationkeeping with the Agena...
...nothing but blurry blue sky. Ironically, the best black-and-white movies show nothing more enlightening than the crew mugging in the spacecraft with a free-floating camera. Even so, NASA officials were quick to point out that the crew did shoot the first daylight pictures of a docked Gemini-Age-na-and one of the most spectacular views of the earth's curvature ever seen by nonastronauts (see color pages...
Even more ambitious flight plans are now being polished for Commander Charles Conrad (command pilot) and Lieut. Commander Richard Gordon (pilot), who are scheduled to launch in Gemini 11 shortly after Labor Day. To be attempted...
...tricky first orbit rendezvous over the Pacific with an Agena launched before the Gemini, simulating the critical Apollo-Lunar Excursion Module moon rendezvous...
...record 860-mile apogee for two or three orbits-considerably higher than Gemini 10's top apogee...