Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing ...
To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special ...
Gemini 3 (Gemini’s first manned mission) was the first time a space capsule changed its orbit mid-flight. Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk. Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel ...
Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing ...
Two astronauts are seated inside the Gemini spacecraft in this artist’s concept made in January 1965. The Gemini program was ...
“What a helluva bore,” yawned a controller at Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center ... By week’s end, as Gemini 7 completed its seventh uneventful day in space, the flight had indeed escaped ...
“Spotted Gemini 7 at 12 o’clock high,” he reported. Astronauts Borman and Lovell, who had been flying most of their mission in underwear, were now in their space suits. If the two spacecraft ...
Gemini 8 was in trouble. After completing the first space docking with another craft, it begins to spin uncontrollably. Ditching protocol, commanding officer Neil Armstrong tries an unorthodox plan.