page_title: Gemini 11
section_title: Objectives
hierarchical_section_title: Gemini 11 / Objectives
caption_attribution_description: English: Lift-off of Gemini-Titan 11 (GT-11) on Complex 19. The Gemini 11 mission included a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle. Русский: Запуск космического корабля «Джемини-11» с космодрома № 19 на мысе Канаверал. Миссия включала в себя стыковку с кораблём-мишенью «Аджена».
context_page_description: Gemini 11 was the ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966. It was the 17th crewed American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time. Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard F. Gordon Jr. performed the first-ever direct-ascent rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 1 hour 34 minutes after launch; used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a world-record high-apogee Earth orbit; and created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether. Gordon also performed two extra-vehicular activities for a total of 2 hours 41 minutes.
context_section_description: Perform a direct-ascent rendezvous with the Agena Target Vehicle on the first orbit in support of Project Apollo. This would simulate a Lunar Module rendezvous with the Command/Service Module after a lunar landing.
  Use the Agena rocket engine to put the combined craft in a high-apogee elliptical orbit.
  Perform two extra-vehicular activities.
  Demonstrate passive attitude stabilization of the two spacecraft connected by a tether and create artificial gravity by spinning the combined craft.
  Perform miscellaneous scientific experiments.
  Perform a computer-controlled atmospheric reentry to a precision splashdown point.
caption: Gemini 11 launch
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