Gemini Docking Mechanism

The Gemini spacecraft was the first American craft that could dock to another in space.

It use a non-androgynous docking mechanism.

The docking system was not hollow, so there was no ability to transfer people or material between the craft; the docking system merely locked two craft together.

References

• http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110010964_2011009594.pdf

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