View of the Agena Target Docking vehicle seen from the Gemini 8 spacecraft during rendezvous in space on March 16, 1966.
NASA Photo ID: S66-25781
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The Atlas 250D and Agena B 6009 boosters performed nominally at launch inserting the Agena and Ranger into a 192 km altitude Earth parking orbit.
There seemed to be a problem with the Agena spacecraft and as the spin rate climbed Armstrong was forced to undock from the unmanned spacecraft. This just increased the spin rate of the Gemini.
A guidance and navigation system and a rendezvous radar were provided to permit astronauts to try out various techniques of rendezvous and docking with an Agena target vehicle.
AGENA (Beta Cen)
Menkent (Theta Cen)
This constellation represents Chiron who is frequently mentioned in Greek mythology. Chiron was one of the Centaurs, barbarous beasts which were said to be half-horse and half-human.
Another name for the star is Agena. According to a note in Allen, this name appears to be a compound of the letter "A" for alpha and "gena" meaning knee. (See the note on p. 154 of the 1963 Dover.) The root of the name would presumably be Latin.
The Gemini docked with an Agena spacecraft. The Agena, which had no crew, was launched so the Gemini could practice docking with it. After docking, the Gemini had a thruster problem. The capsule started spinning, and the mission ended early.
Vehicle: Atlas Agena D
Launch Date: 6/14/67
Mission: Venus flyby
Outcome: Successfully passed within 3,990 km of Venus on October 19, 1967. Returned much more data than Mariner 2. Discovered that Venus' atmosphere was mostly carbon dioxide.
Another magnitude 1 star, [2041] beta Centauri, also known as Agena ("knee") and Hadar ("ground"), can be found in the constellation. It is a blue-white giant approximately 525 light-years distant from Earth.
Hadar (Agena) = Beta Centauri &*
Muhlifain = Gamma Centauri
Delta Cen = Delta Centauri
Eps Cen = Epsilon Centauri
Zeta Cen = Zeta Centauri
Eta Cen = Eta Centauri
Menkent = Theta Centauri
Iota Cen = Iota Centauri
Mu Cen = Mu Centauri ...
In the southern hemisphere, Alpha Centauri is one of the stars of The Pointers or The Southern Pointers [18] with Beta Centauri or Hadar / Agena. [19] Both stars directly point towards the constellation Crux-the Southern Cross.
named stars: rigel kentaurus (Alpha 1 Cen) hadar [aka agena](Beta Cen) menkent (Theta Cen)
NGC5139 is the brightest globular cluster and the largest in the Milky way.
Small telescopes will show stars and larger scopes will show even more.
The main named stars in Centaurus: (Greek alphabet)
Agena (Hadar, β Cen), Menkent (θ Cen), Muhlifain (γ Cen), Rigil Kent (Toliman, α Cen).
There are no named stars in Norma.
on August 27, 1962, Mariner 2 lifted off the pad at Cape Canaveral aboard its Atlas-Agena rocket.
Collins piloted NASA's 3-day Gemini 10 Mission, which was launched on July 18, 1966; this mission successfully rendezvoused and docked with a separate Agena target vehicle, and Collins walked in space twice during this mission.
Named stars: Alpha Cen (Toliman/Rigil Kentaurus), Beta Cen (Agena/Hadar), Gamma Cen (Muliphein), Theta Cen (Menkent)
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Cepheus ...
6 Agena Blue Giant Centaurus 460 0.61 -5.1 Altair White Aquila 17 0.77 2.2 Acrux Binary Southern Cross 360 0.83 -3.9 Aldebaran Orange Taurus 68 0.85 -0.3 Antares Red Giant Scorpius 330 0.96 -4.7 Spica Blue Giant Virgo 260 0.98 -3.
He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.
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