After flying a loop around it, to make sure it hadn’t been damaged during its launch, Armstrong started to gingerly fly the Gemini capsule toward the docking collar. The speed difference between ...

God, if only I were a poet. An astronaut's-eye view of Africa's Lake Chad, taken from the Gemini 9 spacecraft. When the hatch stood open, I barely pushed against the floor of the spacecraft and my ...

A Titan II rocket took off from Cape Kennedy and carried a 6,900-lb. Gemini capsule 99 miles high. No attempt was made to orbit; the capsule arched like a missile and plunged down at 16.600 m.p.h ...

There were those who thought that flying two spacecraft whizzing around the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour wouldn’t work, and Gemini sought to prove them wrong. To achieve this, Gemini needed ...

Leonov leaves the spacecraft on the first "spacewalk." March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini spacecraft, Gemini 3, named the Molly Brown in recognition of Grissom's ...

Gemini 2, like Gemini 1, was an unmanned mission intended as a test flight of the Gemini spacecraft. Unlike Gemini 1, which was placed into orbit, Gemini 2 made a suborbital flight, primarily ...