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🤝 Gemini VII, meet Gemini VI-A

The first-ever rendezvous of two spacecrafts with astronauts on board happened #OTD in 1965. This photo of the Gemini VII craft was taken by the crew of Gemini VI.

Learn more about this historic meetup in Earth's orbit: https://go.nasa.gov/3hhSWR7
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It wasn't I played #KerbalSpaceProgram that I realized just how hard this was to do. Orbital mechanics is hard.
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god those old crafts looked so cool. The texture of it is so cool
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And these things were driven by the equivalent of a 4 bit computer running at 1 MHz with a couple of kbytes of ram....

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