Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Gemini XI
Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard F. Gordon Jr. performed the first-ever direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it one hour and thirty-four minutes after launch; used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a world record high-apogee earth orbit; and created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,798.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-19, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1966
89th orbital launch attempt
Titan II
11th mission
4th mission of 1966
11th successful mission