Launch of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_8" id="mwug" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gemini 8">Gemini 8</a> with astronauts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" id="mwuw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott" id="mwvA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="David Scott">David Scott</a>. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.<sup about="#mwt79" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_16#cite_note-14" id="mwvQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwvg">[14]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"><cite about="#mwt76" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWilkinson2009">Wilkinson, John (2009). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=phJ-QQu-yc8C&amp;pg=PA17" id="mwCl8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Gemini program"</a>. <i id="mwCmA">Probing the new solar system</i>. Collingwood, Vic.: <a href="./CSIRO_Publishing" id="mwCmE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="CSIRO Publishing">CSIRO Publishing</a>. p.<span id="mwCmI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>17. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCmM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCmQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-643-09949-4" id="mwCmU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-643-09949-4"><bdi id="mwCmY">978-0-643-09949-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt76" class="Z3988" id="mwCmc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Gemini+program&amp;rft.btitle=Probing+the+new+solar+system&amp;rft.place=Collingwood%2C+Vic.&amp;rft.pages=17&amp;rft.pub=CSIRO+Publishing&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-643-09949-4&amp;rft.aulast=Wilkinson&amp;rft.aufirst=John&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DphJ-QQu-yc8C%26pg%3DPA17&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+16"></span></span>