BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On January 19, 1965, NASA’s Gemini II spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy (now Kennedy Space Center) in Florida. This suborbital flight marked the final test before the ...

If Gemini 8 had failed, NASA would most ikely have been shut down. Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

November: The Space Task Group is renamed the Manned ... March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini spacecraft, Gemini 3, named the Molly Brown in recognition of ...

That distance surpassed the record set by NASA’s 1966 Gemini 11 mission ... Gillis will be exposed to the vacuum of space as their Crew Dragon capsule is depressurized and a circular hatch ...