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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate. Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to a last-ditch ...

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 ...

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 ...