Page "Gemini 8" Paragraph 14

Five months earlier, NASA had tried to launch an Agena along with Gemini 6, but the Agena blew up on launch and the Gemini launch was postponed.

This time everything worked perfectly.

The Agena put itself into a 298-kilometer circular orbit and oriented itself to the correct attitude for the docking.

The Gemini spacecraft itself was launched into a 160 by 272 kilometer orbit by a modified Titan II at 10: 41: 02 a. m. EST. The Agena target vehicle is launched into space on an Atlas rocket in preparation for Gemini 8