
SINGLE & RARE ASTRONAUT AUTOGRAPHS	GENE CERNAN

Gemini 9's Angry Alligator

8x10 orbital photo of a useless ATDA, which failed to jettison its nose fairing. The Gemini 9 mission was "snakebit." First, the prime crew was killed in a plane crash, leaving the mission to the somber backups, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan. The Agena that they were supposed to practice docking with blew up on the pad. It's replacement, the ATDA becomes the Angry Alligator, and Gene's second American EVA becomes the "spacewalk from hell" when multiple problems occur.