But immediately after the Agena's engine fired at the six-minute mark in the flight, telemetry was lost. After a successful burn of the Atlas booster, the Agena's engine fired to separate it from the Atlas. Fifteen minutes later, the uncrewed Atlas-Agena target vehicle was launched. On October 25, 1965, Schirra and Stafford boarded their Gemini 6 craft to prepare for launch. The Wasp was fitted with ground station equipment by ITT to relay live television, via the Intelsat I (nicknamed the "Early Bird") satellite. Original mission plans also included the first live television coverage of the recovery of a US spacecraft at sea from the recovery ship, the US aircraft carrier Wasp. The retrorockets were scheduled to be fired at 46 hours and 10 minutes into the mission over the Pacific Ocean on the 29th orbit. At 23 hours and 55 minutes into the mission, while the spacecraft passed over White Sands, New Mexico, the crew was to attempt to observe a laser beam originating from the ground. The final undocking would take place at 18 hours and 20 minutes into the mission. The second was scheduled for seven hours and forty-five minutes, the third at nine hours and forty minutes, and the fourth and final docking at ten hours and five minutes into the mission. The first docking was scheduled for five hours and forty minutes into the mission. The mission was to include four dockings with the Agena Target Vehicle. It was to land in the western Atlantic Ocean south of Bermuda. The original Gemini 6 mission, scheduled for launch on October 25, 1965, at 12:41 pm EDT, had a planned mission duration of 46 hours 47 minutes, completing a total of 29 orbits. The Atlas-Agena launches the Agena Target Vehicle for the intended Gemini 6 rendezvous mission, attempted Octobut fails. This was the prime crew of Gemini 3 Support crew Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed Gemini flight, the 13th crewed American flight, and the 21st crewed spaceflight of all time (including two X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (54 nautical miles)). Although the Soviet Union had twice previously launched simultaneous pairs of Vostok spacecraft, these established radio contact with each other, but they had no ability to adjust their orbits in order to rendezvous and came no closer than several kilometers of each other, while the Gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft came as close as one foot (30 cm) and could have docked had they been so equipped. Stafford, achieved the first crewed rendezvous with another spacecraft, its sister Gemini 7. The mission, flown by Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Gemini 6A (officially Gemini VI-A) was a 1965 crewed United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.
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