14th Dec, 2022 12:00

NASA: Celebrating 50 Years of Space Exploration
 
Lot 43
 

Gemini 10: Docking with Agena

Gemini 10: Docking with Agena

S66-46144 (18 July 1966) --- The Gemini-10 spacecraft is successfully docked with the Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005. The Agena display panel is clearly visible. After docking with the Agena, astronauts John W. Young, command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, fired the 16,000-pound thrust engine of Agena-10's primary propulsion system to boost the combined vehicles into an orbit with an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new altitude record for manned spaceflight

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “a Kodak Paper” watermark verso, numbered “S66-46144” in red top margin

Estimated at £200 - £300

 

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