Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit
1965 · Event
Two Gemini capsules fly in formation a foot apart, 160 miles up — proving that spacecraft can find and hold station on each other, the manoeuvre the whole Moon plan depends on. The crews, in the Cold War's tensest year, hold up a hand-lettered sign in a window: BEAT ARMY.
On these timelines: The Space Race, USA, Master
More from The Space Race
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Yuri Gagarin: first human in space (1961)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech (1962)
- 'One small step': the Moonwalk broadcast (1969)
- Apollo 17 leaves the Moon (1972)
- Apollo 1 fire (1967)
Around 1965
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)