Gemini 10

} |- | Duration: ||2 jours
22 heures
46 minutes
39 seconds |- | Distance covered: ||1.968.823 km |- | Orbits: ||43 |- | Apogee:
||268,9 km |- | Perigee:
||159,9 km |- | Period:
||88,79 min |- | Slope: ||28,87 deg |- | Mass: ||3.762 kg |- ! colspan=" 2" cellspacing=" 0" cellpadding=" 2" bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" |Crew |- |colspan=" 2" align=" center" |
Gemini 10
(GD: Young, Hakes) |- ! colspan=" 2" cellspacing=" 0" cellpadding=" 2" bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" |Crew of Gemini 10 |} Gemini 10 (officially Gemini X) is the inhabited 8emission of the Programme Gemini and the 14th American inhabited space mission.

Crew

John W. Young (2), pilot commander
Michael Hakes (1), pilot

*Le number between brackets indicates the number of former space missions, that described here incluse

Crew of reserve

Alan Bean, pilot commander
Clifton Williams, pilot

Objectives

Initially one return and a mooring with a Agena launched the same day. Then an appointment, on a more raised orbit, with the Agena target left by Gemini 8. As this rocket had not had any more electricity for several months, the crew was going to be able to test his capacity to carry out an appointment with a passive vehicle. A extra-vehicular exit was also with the program.

Course of the flight

The launching of Agena was perfect later like that of Gemini 10,100 minutes. After the appointment and the mooring with their target, they ignited the engine of Agena to find itself on a Orbite of 763 km Apogée, record at the time. The mission continued with a extra-vehicular Hake exit. There were satisfied to remain " debout" on the level of the hatchway, taking photographs of the Milky Way. They separated then from their Agena to carry out one return with Agena of Gemini 8. 48 hours after the beginning of the flight, Collins carried out one second exit during which it recovered a collector of Micrométéorite S. Thanks to a gas jet gun, it could then go to inspect the rocket-target which flew to a few meters of the Gemini vessel.

See the capsule Gemini 10

It is exposed to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, Kansas, the United States.

Sources

Kennedy Space Center: Gemini X

Category: Program Gemini Category: 1966

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