US space programme (196566) in which astronauts practised rendezvous and docking of spacecraft, and working outside their spacecraft, in preparation for the
Apollo project Moon landings.
Gemini spacecraft carried two astronauts and were launched by
Titan rockets. Flights were designated by the double name
Gemini-Titan.
The meeting of
Gemini 7 with
Gemini 6 in 1965 was the first rendezvous between two spacecraft.
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