These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

And finally, could an astronaut control his spacecraft's reentry into Earth's atmosphere? Gemini would tell them. What Grissom would tell the engineers at McDonnell's St. Louis plant, where the ...

Hutchinson? Former astronaut James Lovell Jr. peered deep inside the Gemini 12 capsule that he flew in November 1966 during the first space mission in which two spaceships docked. “All the spots ...

The astronauts did not at first realize that the trouble was in their own craft because Gemini’s maneuvering system had been turned off, decided to unlock because they thought that the ...

Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight. NASA In 1965, a chance confession by an astronaut lead to a dramatic fallout encompassing NASA ...

The plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it ... when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott seemed to ...

It was a tall order. The Mercury missions showed that astronauts could live in space for up to a full day. And the Gemini missions built on this experience to make spectacular progress.

In that way, the Gemini VIII mission ticked a lot of boxes as it not only enabled another key spaceflight technology milestone for the U.S., but also tested the astronauts on-board and the ground ...