Agena

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 Return to the StarChild Main Page ...

Agena Information - Information About the Star Agena Meaning "the settled land" (Hadar), Agena is a fairly bright star appears to lie close to Alpha Centauri in the sky.

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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.

Hadar, less often known as Agena (from the "knee" of the Centaur), is quite the magnificent star: rather, stars. Visually, Alpha Centauri is notably brighter than Hadar, but only because (ignoring Proxima) it is the closest star to the Earth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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