Gemini 9 - Augmented Target Docking Adapter (The angry alligator)

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NASA

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• https://images.nasa.gov/details/s66-37923
• http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001354.jpg on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine
• http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001354.html on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine

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The Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) as seen from the Gemini 9 spacecraft during one of their three rendezvous in space. The ATDA and Gemini 9 spacecraft are 66.5 ft. apart. Failure of the docking adapter protective cover to fully separate on the ATDA prevented the docking of the two spacecraft. The ATDA was described by the Gemini 9 crew as an "angry alligator."

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