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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 2473654, member: 28299&quot;]50 years ago today, July 20, 1966, Gemini 10 was in day two of it&#039;s three day mission.&nbsp; The mission practiced rendezvous and spacewalking.&nbsp; It&#039;s crew was John Young commander and Michael Collins pilot.&nbsp; Three years later to the day, July 20, 1969, Collins was circling the Moon in Apollo 11, while Armstrong and Aldrin landed and walked on the Moon.&nbsp; Finally, on July 20, 1976 the Viking 1 lander soft landed on Mars and started looking for life.&nbsp; The results that came back have provoked dissension within the scientific community over the ensuing 40 years whether the signals from the experiments were caused by biological or chemical processes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a flown Gemini 10 Fliteline medallion from my collection.&nbsp; Flitelines are somewhere between the size of a quarter and a half dollar.&nbsp; Their designs are metallic representations of the mission patch.&nbsp; In this case the patch shows the Gemini spacecraft rendezvousing with the Agena spacecraft.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/Gemini_8-12/GT10bcFlitelineObv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/SkyMan58/SpaceRelated/Gemini_8-12/GT10bcFlitelineRev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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