Neil Armstrong20 September 1965
The crew assignments for Gemini 8 were announced with Neil Armstrong as Command Pilot with Pilot David Scott
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The crew assignments for Gemini 8 were announced with Neil Armstrong as Command Pilot with Pilot David Scott
The crew assignments for Gemini 8 were announced with Neil Armstrong as Command Pilot with Pilot David Scott
The rendezvous and first ever docking between two spacecraft is successfully completed after 6.5 hours in orbit. The mission launches, the most complex yet, with a rendezvous and docking with the unmanned Agena target vehicle, the second American (and third ever) extra-vehicular activity (EVA) (Armstrong himself dislikes the term "space walk"). During Gemini VIII American astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David Scott perform the first orbital docking
During Gemini VIII American astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David Scott performed the first orbital docking
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