Rank 68 documents Gemini 7 — the endurance mission that held the US duration record until Skylab and staged the first crewed rendezvous with another piloted spacecraft. Launched 4 December 1965 atop Titan II GLV, Frank Borman and James Lovell spent 13 days 18 hours 35 minutes in spacecraft mass 3,663 kg — 206 orbits that validated human tolerance for a two-week lunar voyage. With no EVA planned, both astronauts wore soft suits only as seat liners inside a cabin roughly the size of a phone booth. Eleven days into the flight, Gemini 6A launched with Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford; on 15 December the two craft closed to within roughly 30 centimetres in history's first piloted rendezvous, flying coelliptic station-keeping while controllers rehearsed techniques Apollo would demand. Recovery came 18 December. Wallimilist renders the dual-capsule nose-to-nose hero, Earth limb, vertical GEMINI VII title, orbit-arc kicker, and mission patch exactly as the master PNG dictates — 1965 apolloEra palette, rendezvous radar context, and curator copy on endurance plus Gemini 6A formation flying.