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Gemini 6A was a 1965 crewed United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. The mission, flown by Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford, achieved the first crewed rendezvous with another spacecraft, its sister Gemini 7. Although the Soviet Union had twice previously launched simultaneous pairs of Vostok spacecraft, these established radio contact with each other, but they had no ability to adjust their orbits in order to rendezvous and came no closer than several kilometers of each other, while the Gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft came as close as one foot (30 cm) and could have docked had they been so equipped.

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Gemini VI-A
human spaceflight, Gemini spacecraft, low Earth orbit, Titan II GLV, Thomas P. Stafford, Wally Schirra, 

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1965 Gemini 6A

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rocket launch

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splashdown

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RELAX ON DAY OF FLIGHT (BACKUP CREW) (GT-6) ASTRONAUT JOHN W. YOUNG - MISC

The As Sudd swamp, Sudan, on the Earth

Cloud vortex over the Canary Islands on Earth

Walter M. Schirra Jr. (seated), command pilot of NASA's Gemini-6 spaceflight

Gemini-6 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., (left) and Thomas P. Stafford (center) are welcomed upon their arrival at Cape Kennedy's by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr

Gemini 7 over the Pacific Ocean during rendezvous with Gemini 6

Network of stratocumulus clouds SW of the Canary Islands on Earth

Gemini 6 launch abort on December 12, 1965

The As Sudd swamp, Sudan, on the Earth

Cloud vortex over the Canary Islands on Earth

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		RELAX ON DAY OF FLIGHT (BACKUP CREW) (GT-6) ASTRONAUT JOHN W. YOUNG - MISC		Commons
commons	image		The As Sudd swamp, Sudan, on the Earth		Commons
commons	image		Cloud vortex over the Canary Islands on Earth		Commons
commons	image		Walter M. Schirra Jr. (seated), command pilot of NASA's Gemini-6 spaceflight		Commons
commons	image		Gemini-6 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., (left) and Thomas P. Stafford (center) are welcomed upon their arrival at Cape Kennedy's by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr		Commons
commons	image		Gemini 7 over the Pacific Ocean during rendezvous with Gemini 6		Commons
commons	image		Network of stratocumulus clouds SW of the Canary Islands on Earth		Commons
commons	image		Gemini 6 launch abort on December 12, 1965		Commons
commons	image		The As Sudd swamp, Sudan, on the Earth		Commons
commons	image		Cloud vortex over the Canary Islands on Earth		Commons