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Artist Concept depicts a Gemini Astronaut, wearing an AMU during Extravehicular Activity EVA. An umbilical tether secures the Astronaut to the Gemini Spacecraft. The Agena Target Vehicle is used for Gemini rendezvous and docking maneuvers

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Internet Archive

Gemini XI

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Image source: SDASM Archives

17 July 1975

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Image source: SDASM Archives

The Next Steps

The shuttlecraft docked with the station -in this case a top docking, but a nose docking is also possible. Two other shuttlecraft are seen, each of a slightly different configuration, since this scene looks forward to a time when shuttles, like aircraft today, will be specially designed according to their functions.

Our World in Space
Robert McCall & Isaac Asimov
New York Graphic Society, 1974

Image credit: Robert McCall
Image source: Numbers Station