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Fifty years ago yesterday, Geminis 6 and 7 made the first rendezvous in space

• jessriedel 11y ago
  At the time, it was not at all clear that in-orbit rendezvous would be feasible. One of the reasons this is so important is that it enabled lunar orbit rendezvous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit_rendezvous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit_rendezvous This drastically reduced the total launch mass for the Apollo missions.
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  • caretcaret 11y ago
    I celebrated when I made my first rendezvous in Kerbal Space Program. It's not easy to do and knowing that it was done in real life with tougher constraints was awe-inspiring.