Something similar happened with the U.S. manned space program in the 60s ... just for the purpose. The Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV) was an Agena-D rocket equipped with a docking adapter ...

France became the third nation to orbit a satellite with its own rocket ... Program, our stairway to the Moon. Gemini III with astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young became America's first two men ...

There was a retro-rocket pack — designed to ... managers have credited Armstrong and the Gemini 8 Mission Controllers with saving the space program. Less than a month earlier, two astronauts ...