Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA / TDA 4), NASA’s backup Gemini rendezvous target launched alone on an Atlas SLV-3 from Cape Kennedy LC-14 after GATV-5004 failed; its nose shroud did not jettison, leaving the famous “angry alligator” docking port blocked for Gemini 9A.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Atlas SLV-3 flight
- Date and time
- 1 June 1966, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1966-046
- Launches in 1966
- 53rd of 131
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