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Gemini 9A launched on June 3, 1966 with Command Pilot Tom Stafford & Co Pilot Gene Cernan. They performed a rendezvous & docking with an unmanned Agena Target Vehicle & Cernan performed a 2hr EVA or 'Space Walk' which turned to near disaster when Cernan's visor fogged up completely, denying him any vision. becuase his space suit had become over heated making it very difficut to work. His pulse soared to about 195 beats per minute. The flight surgeon on the ground feared he would lose consciousness. If this happened Stafford was ordered to cut Cernan loose in orbit because if he attempted re-entry with the astronaut still attached by his umbilical - which in and of itself would mean risking Cernan's body pulling the spacecraft off-course during reentry, or entangling with the parachute prior to splashdown. Amazingly Cernan made his way to back of the space craft to obtain the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU) & return to the hatch were stafford helped him In by holding his feet down. The two Astronauts returned to earth in one piece. Gene Cernan later flew twice to Moon, first on a Lunar orbital mission Apollo 10 In 1969 & second on Apollo 17 In 1972 where he became the last man to walk on the Moon. Thomas Stafford flew again with Cernan on Apollo 10 & on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project In 1975.