Gemini Agena Target Vehicle 5003 (GATV-8 / TDA 3), the unmanned docking target launched on an Atlas-Agena D from Cape Kennedy LC-14 for Gemini 8; Armstrong and Scott later achieved the world's first spacecraft docking with it.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 528 kg
- Flight
- 18th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1966, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1966-019
- Launches in 1966
- 21st of 131
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