The primary goal of Project Gemini was to demonstrate NASA’s ability to perform all the basic capabilities that would be required for the Apollo Program in order to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s. Paramount among those capabilities was the rendezvous and docking of two spacecraft, required for the future Moon landing missions. An additional goal was to ensure that spacecraft and astronauts could function for at least eight days, considered to be the minimum time for a round-trip mission to the Moon. On December 15, 1965, Gemini VI and VII accomplished these two important milestones...But not as originally envisioned by NASA.