NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready for the Apollo ...

The recoverable spacecraft reentered off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean instead of the Indian Ocean, and therefore ...

Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to ... swimmers and an emergency raft beside the bobbing Gemini capsule. While other rescue planes circled overhead, the swimmers ...

Gemini 3 (Gemini’s first manned mission) was the first time a space capsule changed its orbit mid-flight. Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk. Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel ...

Dragon rendezvoused with the space station this morning (April 22), docking with the orbital lab at 8:40 a.m. ET.

building a special spacecraft just for the purpose. The Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV) was an Agena-D rocket equipped with a docking adapter into which the nosecone of a Gemini capsule could fit.

it was soon renamed Gemini, after the zodiac sign for twins. But many of the pilots who would ride the enlarged Mercury-type capsule into orbit gave the spacecraft another handle. They called it ...

The plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it tumbled out of control on its high orbit. Last week, when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference ...

Although MOL borrowed ideas and hardware (including a modified Gemini space capsule) from NASA, its reconnaissance mission was strictly classified. National Museum of the USAF The moment ...