Less reliant on fault-prone electronics, Gemini was simpler to fly - truly a pilot's spaceship. It was also tiny, affording its occupants a meager 80 cubic feet (2.27 cubic meters) of pressurized ...

Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

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 ...

Hutchinson? Former astronaut James Lovell Jr. peered deep inside the Gemini 12 capsule that he flew in November 1966 during the first space mission in which two spaceships docked. “All the spots ...

For Christmas in 1965, astronauts Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr and Thomas P. Stafford played "Jingle Bells" aboard Gemini 6. National Air and Space Museum As a distant war was intensifying and the ...

the two women astronauts Anna and Sarah have reached an altitude of 1400 kilometres above the Earth’s surface surpassing the previous record set during NASA’s Gemini 11 mission in 1966.

In 1966, the Gemini XII Mission concluded the NASA's Project Gemini with Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and James Lovell. During the mission, Aldrin performed three extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) or ...