Gemini 10 astronauts John W. Young, left, and Michael Collins, right, are welcomed
abord the USS Guadalcanal on July 21, 1966, following their splash down and
recovery in the Atlantic Ocean, 450 nautical miles east of Cape Kennedy. The
astronauts were in orbit for more than 70 hours follwing their launch from Cape
Kennedy on July 18, 1966. They successfully rendezvoused and docked their
spacecraft with an Agena target satellite while orbiting 161 nautical miles
above the Earth. The docked configuration then rose to a record altitude of 412
nautical miles, using the Agena's propulsion system. Greeting the astronauts
were Rear Admiral W.P. Mack, extreme left, US. Navy task group commander for
the Western Atlantic, and NASA recovery official John Stonesifer, next to
Young. This was the eighth manned Gemini flight in the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration program.
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