Kevin Knuth

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And that picture actually is showing the end of the Tether experiment.

So the Gemini project, Gemini meaning twins, was all about docking.

Can we actually dock with another spacecraft in space?

And so Gemini 11 was the last one of the series, and a unique one in that their goal was to go up, literally launch, and dock within one orbit.

So what they were doing previously, they'd go and they'd get up into orbit and then they'd maneuver to dock.

But the trick was, can we just go up and dock?

And that's what they tried to do with the Gemini 11.

And they were successful.

And after they docked, they then were tethered to the other craft.

And they did a tether experiment where they actually got the two crafts spinning like this.

I'm going to knock things over.

Got the two crafts spinning on a tether.

and did experiments to see how stable that is and what goes wrong.

So they had just finished that experiment, and they had just released the other craft, the unmanned craft.

And that's in the picture that the background of that lithograph is from.

And there's no indication that the astronauts saw any UFO at that time in the transcripts.

They were busy with the tether experiment.

So when was the... Because you just said earlier that... But then the UFO sighting, the weird thing that happened, happened an hour later, which would put it in another orbit, right?

Two-thirds of an orbit.