High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Earth orbit rendezvous is type of space rendezvous, a method that has been proposed for space missions to the Moon. NASA considered an EOR mission profile for the Apollo program, but chose instead to use lunar orbit rendezvous. NASA had plans to use both EOR and LOR for Project Constellation, which is was to include human spaceflight missions to the Moon beginning around 2020. The Agena target vehicle was used for testing Earth orbit rendezvous in the NASA Gemini Program. Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 rendezvoused in orbit in 1965, but without Agena. Next, Gemini 8 successfully docked March 16, 1966 with the Agena. The Agena-Gemini rendezvous also achieved many other tasks in later Gemini launches. The EOR proposal for Apollo consisted of using a series of small rockets half the size of a Saturn V to put different components of a spacecraft to go to the Moon in orbit around the Earth, then assemble them in orbit. Experiments of Project Gemini involving docking with the Agena target vehicle were designed partly to test the feasibility of this program.

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