A Titan 2 rocket lifts from the pad at Cape Kennedy today carrying the Gemini 10 capsule and astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins to a planned three-day voyage in space.
The Titan 2, carrying the Gemini 10 capsule and astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins, blasts off from a Cape Kennedy pad in pursuit of an Atlas-Agena launced 101 minutes earlier. The photo is the result of a double exposure.
Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Air Force Maj. Michael Collins, gestures as she talks with newsmen at the family home in El Lago near the Spacecraft Center following the successful launch.
Members of the Recovery Control Center Staff at Manned Spacecraft Center Houston, TX, watch as Gemini 10 spaceflight begins the roll after launching from Cape Kennedy.
This is an artist's drawing of how the Gemini 10 space capsule will be pushed into a higher orbit when they ignite the 16,000-pound thrust multi-start Agena rocket engine while docked with the Agena target vehicle.
Flames pour from an Atlas rocket as it pushes an Agena target vehicle toward orbit and 100 minutes later the Gemini 10 spacecraft starts in pusuit atop a Titan 2 rocket.
As Gemini 10 spaceflight continued to orbit the earth on its complex mission, ground crew members at Mission Control reflected these expressions as they went about their various assignments.
Clifford E. Charlesworth, one of the Gemini 10 flight directors, explains the EVA maneuver to be attempted by Astronaut Michael Collins during the spaceflight.
Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Air Force Maj. Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden of Wellesly, Mass., arrive at Ellington AFB chapel where they attended Catholic mass.
While their dad, Maj. Michael Collins was busy with experiments in space during the flight of Gemini 10, Michael Jr. 3, and his sisters, Kathleen, 7, and Ann, 5, get ready to take a ride in the driveway of their home in Nassau Bay, near the Manned…
Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Gemini 10 pilot Mike Collins, jests with newsmen as she and her sister, Mrs. Ellie Golden, walk to a neighbor's home to attend a swimming party today.
Newspaper Articles "Gemini Docks With Agena, Then Starts a Maneuver to Blast into New Orbit" (07/19/66) and "22 Items Left in Space by Returning Astro-" (07/21/66)
Gemini 10 Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young are hoping that yesterday's problem with smarting eyes will not recur late this afternoon as they open their spacecraft's hatch to conduct experiments in space.
Gemini 10 Astronaut-pilot Michael Collins got the "go ahead" today to walk in space on a 50 foot lifeline and use a gas-powered hand gun to propel himself over to Agena 8. AP Artist John Carlton shows how Collins might accomplish his feat.
NASA Photo 66-H-1022, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. John Stonesifer, a NASA landing and recovery official, greets Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins aboard the USS Guadalcanal after the space pilots disembarked from the…
NASA Photo 66-H-1025, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins are welcomed aboard the USS Guadalcanal following their spalsh down and recovery in the Atlantic Ocean, 460 nautical miles east of Cape…
NASA Photo 66-H-1027, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young, command pilot, and Michael Colins, pilot, talk on live radio and television aboard the USS Guadalcanal following their recovery in the Atlantic Ocean.
NASA Photo 66-H-1028, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Astronauts, John W. Young and Michael Collins, are welcomed aboard the USS Guadalcanal following their splash down and recovery in the Atlantic Ocean, 460 nautical miles east of Cape…
NASA Photo 66-H-1029, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Navy personnel prepare to hoist the Gemini 10 spacecraft aboard the USS Guadalcanal following recovery of Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins, 460 nautical miles east of Cape Kennedy.
NASA Photo 66-H-1031, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins relax aboard the USS Guadalcanal following their recovery from the Atlantic Ocean. They splashed down 460 nautical miles east of Cape…
NASA Photo 66-H-1032, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Aboard the USS Guadalcanal, prime recovery ship for the Gemini 10 mission, Rear Admiral W. P. Mack, commander of the Western Atlantic recovery goup, shakes hands with Command Pilot John W. Young…
NASA Photo 66-H-1034, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Gemini 10 Command Pilot John W. Young autographs life preserver for sailor aboard the USS Guadalcanal following his and Pilot Michael Collins' splash down in the Atlantic Ocean 460 nautical miles…
NASA Photo 66-H-1035, Cape Kennedy, FL, July 21, 1966. Twelve-year-old Billy Doyle, of Virginia Beach, Va., shakes hands with Gemini 10 Command Pilot John W. Young aboard the USS Guadalcanal following Young's and Pilot Michael Collins'recovery from…