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NASA Photo ID: S66-46144

Date Taken: 07/18/66

The Gemini 10 spacecraft is successfully docked with Agena Target Docking  Vehicle 5005. The Agena display panel is clearly visible. After docking
with  the Agena, Astronauts John Young and Michael Collins fired the 16,000 lb.  thrust engine of Agena 10's primary propulsion system to boost the
combined  vehicles into an orbit with an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new  altitude record for manned spaceflight.




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