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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 5011263, member: 28299&quot;][ATTACH=full]1201881[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201882[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you VERY MUCH Veterans!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>The first orbital rendezvous in history was between Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 in 1965. These two flights unquestionably put the US ahead of the USSR in the Space Race, which was every bit a battlefront in the Cold War. Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford on Gemini 6 were both USNA graduates, as was Jim Lovell on Gemini 7. Frank Borman, Commander of Gemini 7 was a USMA graduate. The crew of Gemini 7 at the time of rendezvous had been in orbit for a then record of 11 days. After rendezvous Schirra, who loved to pull pranks, told Borman that Stafford would start holding up signs to check on whether Borman&#039;s eyesight had deteriorated in weightlessness. He requested that Borman read out what the signs said. There was only one sign that Stafford held up. Needless to say, Borman did not say it aloud...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1201884[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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