From the personal collection of Apollo 15 moonwalker Dave Scott—a scarce official color glossy 10 x 8 NASA photo of the Agena target vehicle floating high above the Earth, as viewed from a window of the Gemini 8 spacecraft, affixed to its original 14 x 11 cardstock mount, which is signed in black ink, "Neil Armstrong" and "Dave Scott," who adds "Gemini VIII, March 16, 1966." The reverse of the mount is numbered "25779." In fine condition, with light emulsion irregularity, visible at an angle. After completing the world's first orbital docking, the Gemini VIII capsule, still docked to the Agena, began to roll. The crew undocked from the Agena and determined the problem to be a stuck thruster on the spacecraft, which now tumbled at the dizzying rate of one revolution per second. Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott used the capsule's reentry control thrusters to stop the motion, an emergency decision that forced them to end their mission just 10 hours after launch.
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