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John W. Young, the command pilot of Gemini 10, is presented a huge mock pair of pliers before he and fellow Astronaut Michael Collins boarded their spacecraft.

Michael Collins, who is scheduled to take a walk in space during his three-day flight in Gemini 10 with John W. Young, gets suited up in preparation for his blast-off.

Michael Collins inside the Static Article 5 during water egress training onboard the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever.

Michael Collins during zero-gravity egress training aboard a KC-135 Air Force plane.

Michael Collins and John W. Young during zero-gravity egress training aboard a KC-135 Air Force plane.

Michael Collins and John W. Young during zero-gravity egress training aboard a KC-135 Air Force plane.

Michael Collins undergoes a pre-flight suit check before the Gemini 10 launch

Michael Collins undergoes a pre-flight suit check before the Gemini 10 launch

Close up of Michael Collins in helmet (and full space suit) before the Gemini 10 Launch

NASA Photo S-66-39762. John W. Young and Michael Collins, along with backup crew Alan Bean and Clifton C. Williams Jr. discuss their upcoming Gemini X mission at a press conference.

NASA Photo S-66-39767. Astronaut Michael Collins giving an explanation during the Gemini 10 press conference.

NASA Photo S-66-28551. Astronaut Michael Collins undergoes zero-gravity egress training in preparation for his Gemini 10 Mission.

NASA Photo S-66-28577. Astronaut Michael Collins undergoes zero-gravity egress training in preparation for his Gemini 10 Mission.

NASA Photo S-66-28774. Astronaut Michael Collins undergoes zero-gravity egress training in preparation for his Gemini 10 Mission.

NASA Photo S-66-28788. Astronaut Michael Collins undergoes zero-gravity egress training in preparation for his Gemini 10 Mission.

NASA Photo S-66-41160. Astronaut Michael Collins getting his spacesuit checked by NASA scientists before the Gemini 10 Mission.

NASA Photo S-66-42164. Astronaut Michael Collins during pre-flight suit check.

NASA Photo S-66-39723. Astronaut Michael Collins outside of Static Article 5, used for water egress training

NASA Photo S-66-32549. NASA 904, a T-38 jet used by NASA for training missions

Gemini 10 crew Michael Collins and John W. Young working with technicians during zero-gravity egress training aboard the KC-135 Air Force plane.

The Agena spacecraft is rocketed into orbit in a series of halos. This picture was made by an automatic remote camera which makes the rocket takes its own photo as light from the rocket blast starts the photo-electric relay.

Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young inside the cockpit during a Simultaneous Launch Demonstration.

Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young walking down the ramp at Pad 19 after participating in a Simultaneous Launch Demonstration. Taken through a Fish-eye camera lens.

Locked in their tiny Gemini 10 spacecraft are Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins in this unusual "fisheye" lens shot of the capsule before the gantry was lowered at Pad 19.

An Agena space vehicle riding atop a powerful Atlas booster, spewing flames and smoke, rocketed off its pad at Cape Kennedy, FL.

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.

Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Astronaut Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden, sit in front of the television in the Collins home near the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.

Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Astronaut Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden, walking with a priest following a mass service.

Mrs. Pat Collins, wife of Astronaut Michael Collins, and her sister, Mrs. Bernard Golden, leaving a church building with a priest after attending a mass service.

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 Astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins get a welcome from crew of the Carrier Guadalcanal after they were taken aboard following an on-target splashdown from their three day flight.

Gemini 10 Astronaut Michael Collins wears a life belt as he is towed up to a helicopter from raft in the western Atlantic today after splash down of the space craft.

Astronaut Michael Collins awaits for John Young to be helped out of the Gemini 10 after their splashdown in the western Atlantic.

Seaman Roger Bates of New York City installs flotation collar underwater on the Gemini 10 capsule.

The huge, striped parachute which eased Gemini 10 down into the western Atlantic after the reentry of the spacecraft collapses in the water as Gemini 10 floats alongside it.

Parachute of the Gemini 10 eases the space craft down into the waters of the western Atlantic.

Mike Collins, 3, whose dad, Astronaut Michael Collins has contributed a great deal to America's space program in the last few days, has his own little space kick going.

Gemini 10 Astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young sit in a raft with three frogmen as they wait for a helicopter to pick them up after they emerged from their spacecraft after splash down in the western Atlantic.

The 83-foot orange and white parachute that lowered the Gemini 10 space craft after reentry lies below the surface of the western Atlantic after the almost perfect pinpoint landing of the craft in recovery area.

This view made from the Gemini 10 spacecraft shows the stowage bag of the umbilical line after it was dumped from the craft.