Agena in a sentence

Five minutes after liftoff, the Atlas and Agena-Mariner separated, followed by the first Agena burn and second Agena burn.

After docking with their Agena booster in low orbit, Young and Collins used it to climb another convert to meet with the dead, drifting Agena left over from the aborted Gemini 8 flight—thus executing the program's first double rendezvous.

Because of the greater mass, the new Agena D stage would be used instead of the Agena B. Mariner 3 also utilized a new, larger fiberglass payload fairing.

He retrieved a cosmic dust-collecting panel from the side of the Agena, but was not able to take any pictures; in the complicated business of keeping his tether clear of the Gemini and Agena, his Hasselblad camera worked itself free and drifted away.

It was decided to keep the Gemini docked to the Agena as long as possible, as this would mean that they could use the fuel on board the Agena for attitude control.

The crew's first order of business was to make a second burn with the Agena engine to put them into the same orbit as the Gemini 8 Agena.

According to him, the late Cecilia Agena was two months pregnant when she married his elder brother.

Narrating the ordeal to reporters, Agena said: “Today, staff of the Assembly, after two hours at work, were asked to vacate the Assembly.

After a few more correction burns, they were station-keeping convert away from the Gemini 8 Agena.

After the rendezvous, Collins spacewalked over to the dormant Agena at the end of a convert tether, making Collins the first person to meet another spacecraft in orbit.

Also called Hadar and Agena, Beta Centauri is a double star; the primary is a blue-hued giant star of magnitude 0.6, 525 light-years from Earth.

As well as this it was also hoped to dock with the Agena Target Vehicle from the Gemini 8 mission.

Because the Gemini and Agena docked nose-to-nose, the forces experienced were "eyeballs out" as opposed to "eyeballs in" for a launch from Earth.

Booster performance was normal through the Atlas portion of the launch and the first Agena burn, with all systems operating at the proper level.

During the second Agena burn, abnormal fluctuations in the engine chamber pressure occurred, however they did not preclude successful interplanetary injection.

Flight The Agena launched perfectly for the second time, after problems had occurred with the targets for Gemini 6 and 9. Gemini 10 followed 100 minutes later and entered a convert orbit.

He next traveled over to the Agena and tried to grab onto the docking cone but found this impossible as it was smooth and had no grip.

It however turned out to be their own Agena convert away, while their target was convert away.

It would be also the first mission to fire the Agena's own rocket, allowing them to reach higher orbits.

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