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

But back at the beginning of America's space program, it looked like just about anybody could have done the job--and the overqualified men tasked to fly Project Mercury knew it. "I initially said ...

No single space project in this period will be more impressive ... the docking and confirmed the viability of the procedure. Gemini astronauts tackled the goal of working in the vacuum of space ...

It was the first crewed flight in the Project Gemini space exploration ... After launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida, the Gemini 3 astronauts completed three orbits of the Earth during ...

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 ...