Gemini 10 Press Kit - heroicrelics Mirror

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WO 2-4155NEWS WASHINGTON,D .C. 20546 TELS. WO 3-6925RELEASE NO: 66-179FOR RELEASE:FRIDAY *OM*July 15, 1966GEMINI 10LAUNCHES SETFOR JULY 18The National Aeronautics and Space Administration willlaunch the Gemini 10 spacecraft and its Agena Target Vehicleno earlier than July 18 from Cape Kennedy, Fla.The mission is one of the most complex manned space flightsto date.The primary mission objective is successful rendezvousand docking of the Gemini 10 spacecraft with the Agena 10 TargetVehicle.Operational goals, subject to time and propellant ex-pended in rendezvous, include rendezvous with the Agena which waslaunched March 16 for Gemini 8, two periods of extravehicularactivity by the pilot and conduct of16 experiments.Command pilot for the three-day Gemini 10 flight is JohnW. Young. Pilot is Michael Collins. Backup command pilot isAlan I;.Bean, and backup pilot is Clifton C. Williams, Jr.Young was pilot on Gemini 3, the first manned mission inthe Gemini program.Collins will make his first space flighton Gemini 10.space.Bean and Williams have not yet made a flight in-more- . 7/9/66