Gemini Eight News Today

>> way to go, partner. >> youve done it, boy. >> thats great. >> man, that is really slick. >> okay, gemini eight, looking good on the ground. go ahead and dock. >> they found another object in space and they docked them together to make one big spacecraft or rocket on the nose of the gemini. that was amazing. >> so its nighttime. power down. have dinner and get ready for the next day and i happened to look over at neils panel and i saw his eight ball, his attitude bang and i said were in a bank...

Behind. >> ignition. >> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission. >> with the lunar technique with the command modular, you have to bring the two vehicles together and to get them close in such a way, it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead to the space race. that was something the russians hadnt even come...