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 ...

What better way to harness the full potential of deep research than diving into this box of Cheez-its, uh, I mean, the ...

20 min. Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule. Gemini fell two years behind schedule because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

So when American astronaut Ed White was preparing to step out of the Gemini 4 capsule three months later in June of 1965, he believed he really had his work cut out for him. Not only had the ...

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 ...

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 ...