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| Keywords: Gemini DVIDS696424.jpg en Gemini Rendezvous Docking Simulator suspended from the roof of the Langley Research Center's aircraft hanger closing in on its Agena target Francis B Smith wrote in his paper Simulators for Manned Space Research The rendezvous and docking operation of the Gemini spacecraft with the Agena and of the Apollo Command Module with the Lunar Excursion Module have been the subject of simulator studies for several years This figure illustrates the Gemini-Agena rendezvous docking simulator at Langley The Gemini spacecraft was supported in a gimbal system by an overhead crane and gantry arrangement which provided 6 degrees of freedom - roll pitch yaw and translation in any direction - all controllable by the astronaut in the spacecraft Here again the controls fed into a computer which in turn provided an input to the servos driving the spacecraft so that it responded to control motions in a manner which accurately simulated the Gemini spacecraft This is a photograph of the Gemini spacecraft approaching the Agena target in a final docking maneuver NASA Identifier L63-8864 2009-09-24 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/696424 696424 2012-10-10 13 45 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Langley Research Center Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
