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We’re tumbling end over end, and we’ve disengaged from the Agena.” That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success.

On March 16, 1966, the crewed Gemini 8 spacecraft became the first to dock ... Gemini spacecraft almost three hours after the uncrewed Agena target vehicle launched separately.

With multiple counts running simultaneously involving both the Atlas Agena and Gemini Titan rockets and spacecraft on March 16, 1966, the countdown for the Gemini VIII mission was one of the most ...