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Image:AgenaA.jpg 200px Agena A upper stage Category:Spacecraft

Image:AtlasAgenaBMariner1.jpg 200px Atlas Agena B launch with Mariner 1 planetary probe Category:Launch Vehicle

... well and had participated in a lot of operational flights of the Agena. They were going to use the Agena as the target vehicle for the Gemini. But there were some more ... then you can ask the questions. As Mercury wound down, then we formed the Agena section, or the Agena branch. I guess it started out as a section. This was as Mercury ... by now everybody was so sick of hearing about Agenas that anytime they heard "Agena," they immediately thought evil thoughts. This was, again, the Agena was a complete victim. They had absolutely no ...

... Gemini was under way, and Gerry Gerald D. Griffin was the Agena. He was heading up a little section of Agena guys that worked on the flight control. We sort of had ... dock with it anyway. After that, we flew the Agena mission. The Agena finally come to bat. On that mission, we put the Agena into orbit, it made orbit good, we now had ... me go back to a totally different one. I believe it was the first Agena we flew, the Agena, after they got through with it and left it, this probably was the ...

... Ed White device and use it to propel myself over to an Agena, retrieve an experiment package from the Agena, and then the third was just a hatch opening to dump all ... straightforward rendezvous, in that the Agena—let me back up. We rendezvoused with two different Agenas: our own Agena, call it Agena 10, and then a dead, inert Agena that had been used by the ... up in the sky for a couple of months just sitting there. These Agenas were different in two respects. Agena 10 we could ask questions and it would answer. It had a ...

... space docking-began at Eastern Test Range ETR with launch of 7,000-1b. Agena Target Vehicle ( Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV ) by Atlas booster at 10:00 am. EST, followed 100 ... . ‘‘(Atomic Energy Programs, 1966, 186)’’ Smithsonian Institution had photographed reflections of GEMINI VIII and Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV from tracking station 20 mi. north of Johannesburg on spacecraft’s first ...

... going by the numbers. And then—a little bit of history on the Agena spacecraft. We had lost the Agena on the Gemini VII/VI mission. There was a general lack of ... control peculiarity. Some jet somewhere is firing. It’s probably on the Agena, so let’s shut off the Agena attitude control.” Well, now it moved from a steady-state offset case ... —yea verily, that was it Now, I was probably the most knowledgeable of the Agena and Agena systems for a variety of reasons. I lived right across the street from the controller ...

... tape here. '''Chaffee:''' Okay. Tape change '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Did you have any involvement with the Agena? '''Chaffee:''' A little bit. I’m trying to think back. We had the angry alligator ... time, which I don’t remember, had a problem with the Agena engine, and there was a big question. The Agena was an Air Force device, and we had worked with them ... missions, other than Gemini VIII’s, that stand out? '''Chaffee:''' Well, the one where the Agena didn’t work, which we’ve already covered. I think that the final docking missions ...

... mission-ninth manned flight in NASA’s Gemini series-began with launch of Gemini Agena Target Vehicle ( Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV ) by Atlas booster from Eastern Test Range ETR ’s Complex ... ’s primary objective. Other accomplishments included extravehicular activity (Eva), maneuvering of docked GEMINI XI - Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV configuration to record 851-mi. altitude, station-keeping using tether to link ...

... to allow us to control the Gemini space craft adequately and to dock with the Agena vehicle, which was a passive vehicle, and stabilize with that. During this exercise, we did ... redesign, with the manufacturer, the COAS and the reticle pattern and the lighting in the Agena cone so that the crew?we redesigned it so that the crew did not see ... backwards. When we started rendezvousing from a different orbit and at a distance behind the Agena or any vehicle, you can do certain things presumably to try to do your rendezvous ...

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