Gemini 11 was the ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966. It was the 17th crewed American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time. Ast
Gemini XI conducting a tether experiment using the Agena Target Vehicle
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Gemini 11 spacecraft launches on Titan II GLV rocket
Atlas rocket launches Agena target vehicle for the Gemini 11 mission
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive. He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts to reach the Moon, as command module
Gemini 11
…crewed American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (62 mi; 54 nmi)). Astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon performed the first direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 1 hour 34 minutes after launch; used the Agena…
Gordon poses in his Apollo 12 space suit
Gordon during his Gemini 11 flight
Gordon during his Gemini 11 EVA