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From: moe@nuchat.UUCP (Norman C. Kluksdahl)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Agena Docking
Message-ID: <19258@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 90 04:05:37 GMT
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Reply-To: moe@nuchat.UUCP (Norman C. Kluksdahl)
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In article <1990Feb3.205522.22047@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>     On one of the Gemini flights though didn't they end up 
>>   launching a alternate docking mechanism. (I think this was the
>>   same incident know as the "Angry Alligotor")
>
>Yes, the Agena they originally put up ran out of on-orbit lifetime due
>to repeated Gemini launch delays.  The cobbled-together docking test

The Augmented Target Docking Adapter, aka the 'angry aligator'.  Gemini
IX.  The thing was thrown together after the Atlas-Agena failed.  It did
not make it to orbit, due to a fault in the Atlas, which caused the
sustainer engine to gimbal to one extreme.  Telemetry from the Atlas-Agena
lasted only a few (fifteen or fewer) minutes.

Ref:  David Baker, History of Manned Spaceflight.  If you don't have it,
get it.

(Sorry, Henry  :-) )
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