Agena
[ uh-jee-nuh ]
/ əˈdʒi nə /
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noun Rocketry.
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
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The crew successfully docked with an uncrewed Agena spacecraft, and Aldrin logged more than five hours outside the Gemini over the course of three separate spacewalks.
SpaceX's Crewed Launch Continues What NASA's Gemini Astronauts Started|Jeffrey Kluger|November 16, 2020|Time