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Gemini 10

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July 18-21, 1966

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Both astronauts experienced a problem with severe eye irritation, causing swelling and tearing, resulting in cutting short one of the stand-up EVA's.

When Young was asked why he didn't say anything about it sooner...
"I didn't say anything about it because I figured I'd just be called a sissy."
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"That was really something. When that baby lights, there's no doubt about it!"
- John Young, commenting on the Agena thrust
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After docking with Agena 10, the flight set a world altitude record of 475 miles (413 nm).
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"...I am about to tell John that we have a malfunction when - wham! - the whole sky turns orange-white and we are plastered against our shoulder straps."
Michael Collins, "Smithsonian", May 1988


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