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[Gemini VI-A] The first rendezvous in space, at 17,000 mph: Gemini VII spacecraft orbiting the blue Earth. Thomas Stafford, 15–16 December 1965. Printed 1965. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper [NASA image S-65–63221]. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-65–63221” in red in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). Literature: Newsweek, 27 December 1966, cover; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, April 1966, pp. 548–549; TIME, 24 December 1965, p. 34; The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography 1962–1972, Schick and Van Haaften, p. 51 (variant); Terry Hope, Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, p. 67 (variant); Moon: Man’s Greatest Adventure, Thomas, ed., p. 115 (variant). The first rendezvous in space performed by Gemini VI-A and Gemini VII allowed the crew to capture the first incredible photographs of spacecraft against the background of our Home Planet. As Gemini VI-A approached its target, the Gemini VII spacecraft, Schirra piloted while Stafford photographed, creating the first pictures of another vehicle in space made with a handheld camera. His images of the rendezvous describe a graceful dance performed by two small spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 48). Stafford took this superb photograph with a Hasselblad 500C camera and its 80mm lens using Kodak SO 217 film with an ASA of 64. The two spacecraft are some 37 feet apart here. The blue Earth can be seen about 160 miles below. “We reviewed the pictures after we got back. When we saw their clarity – the lighting, the Sun angle, and everything – we realized that they described it very well. The mission will be there in history forever.” Thomas Stafford (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 50).
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