These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

And finally, could an astronaut control his spacecraft's reentry into Earth's atmosphere? Gemini would tell them. What Grissom would tell the engineers at McDonnell's St. Louis plant, where the ...

The astronauts did not at first realize that the trouble was in their own craft because Gemini’s maneuvering system had been turned off, decided to unlock because they thought that the ...

Mattingly inspects an airlock made for Gemini astronauts to practice spacewalks underwater. I got my first space-suited glimpse of the International Space Station not in the vacuum of space but 40 ...

NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time.

Astronauts frequently carry personal items into space, ranging from religious icons and music instruments to sports equipment ...

Had Gemini been within range of a tracking station ... Had either or both those effects be come severe enough, the two astronauts would have been unable to see or operate their controls.

It was a tall order. The Mercury missions showed that astronauts could live in space for up to a full day. And the Gemini missions built on this experience to make spectacular progress.