On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for 34 hr. 20 min. Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the ...

“We’ve got serious problems here. We’re tumbling end over end, and we’ve disengaged from the Agena.” That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown ...

The US astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are home at last — more than nine months after their days-long jaunt into orbit turned into a headline-grabbing space odyssey.

The splashdown method of landing is advantageous because it allows for a softer landing; the waterbody provides vast space for landing. In the early days of space exploration, those spacecraft which ...