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>> we're on our way, frank. >> in december 1965, gemini vii rendezvoused with vi-a in orbit, making it the first manned spacecraft to do to. vii doubled the amount of time any man had been in space. >> many doctors of that time said, you know, people can't live in zero gravity for too long, and, of course, we went up there for two weeks, and we did see some changes in the body. but it was nothing that couldn't be overcome and -- >> that was significant, right? because that meant that we could go to the moon and we could chance a mission of that duration, if not longer? >> yeah. >> that changed...

>> we're on our way, frank. >> in december 1965, gemini vii rendezvoused with vi-a in orbit, making it the first manned spacecraft to do to. vii doubled the amount of time any man had been in space. >> many doctors of that time said, you know, people can't live in zero gravity for too long, and, of course, we went up there for two weeks, and we did see some changes in the body. but it was nothing that couldn't be overcome and -- >> that was significant, right? because that meant that we could go to the moon and we could chance a mission of that duration, if not longer? >> yeah. >> that changed...