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Gemini 10 spacecraft successfully docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle
The Gemini 10 spacecraft is successfully docked with Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005. The Agena display panel is clearly visible. After docking with the Agena, Astronauts John Young and Michael Collins fired the 16,000 lb. thrust engine of Agena 10's primary propulsion system to boost the combined vehicles into an orbit with an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new altitude record for manned spaceflight.
Catalog Date: 18 July 1966
Film Type: 70mm
NASA image: S66-46144