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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
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Subject: Re: Many Shuttle Missions
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 13:27:18 EDT
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> Also has NASA ever handle the launch of more than one
> manned vehicle?  I'm sure they didn't during the
> Mercury project.  I think they didn't during Gemini.
> They only mission like this I can recall is the joint
> American-Russian one and the Russians must have handle
> the launch of their Soyuz.
> 
>                                Jimmy Chen
>                             (ihnp4!wuphys!jmc)

Gemeni 6 was supposed to rendezvous with an Atlas-Agena upper stage, to test
docking techniques.  But the Agena failed, so they launched Gemeni 7 first;
Gemeni 6 was launched a bit later and rendezvoused [sic] with Gemeni 7.