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Buzz Aldrin or James Lovell

The Agena tethered to the spacecraft over Houston and the Texas Gulf coast

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 29, 046:20:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-66-63504” in red in top margin

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Buzz Aldrin or James Lovell

The Agena tethered to the spacecraft over the Earth horizon above the Gulf of California

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 30, 047:46:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-66-63519” in red in top margin

20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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NASA SP-171, p. III.

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The photograph was taken with the Hasselblad Super Wide camera and its 38mm lens after Aldrin had tethered the two spacecrafts during his EVA.

“A 100-feet tether line connects the Agena target. Houston and Galveston Bay area are in the center of picture. At bottom left below the Agena is the Red River Valley area of Arkansas and Louisiana” (NASA caption).

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This superb photograph was taken looking south with the Hasselblad Super Wide camera and its 38mm lens.

“The Gulf of California area as seen from the Gemini XII spacecraft during its 30th revolution of Earth. Baja California Sur is the peninsula on the right. At lower left is the mainland of Mexico. A 100-foot tether line connects the Agena Target Docking Vehicle with the Gemini XII spacecraft” (NASA caption).

047:42:01 Lovell: We’re in perfect shape. It’s just beautiful and just perpendicular. If we only had a control system, I’m sure we could do this much better than even in the simulator.
047:42:12 Capcom (Mission Control): Yes. We’re showing you’re hanging in pretty good in pitch and yaw. [...]
047:42:45 Capcom: Okay. What we’d like to have you do, if you’re willing, is Just to let the roll go and see if it will damp out after a while here. [...]
047:43:11 Lovell: As long as that tether doesn’t wrap around us, we’ll do it.
047:43:16 Capcom: Okay.
047:43:18 Capcom: Flight doesn’t really think you’ll damp out in roll.
047:43:24 Aldrin: Well, we’ve stayed well above him now for quite a while. We’re out in front of him just a little bit.