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NASA ID: 66-H-1025

Date: 7-21-66

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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