Objectives
Gemini VIII had two major objectives, of which it achieved one. The two objectives were:
- accomplish an in-orbit rendezvous and docking, and
- accomplish an extended extra-vehicular Activity.
An emergency condition encountered during the docking resulted in premature use of the reentry control system, after which an immediate landing was required by Gemini safety rules, resulting in cancellation of the planned EVA and other activities.
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“Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)