The astronauts' influence in controlling these minutiae of Gemini's operational design went "far beyond … the normal test pilot in determining what was to be done and when," write Barton Hacker and ...

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 ...

Working in space with only the protection of a spacesuit was just one of the critical procedures that had to be mastered before NASA could send astronauts to the moon. Project Gemini was Apollo ...

The astronauts complained and on the Gemini missions eating improved somewhat. The first things to go were the squeeze tubes. Bite-sized cubes were coated with gelatin to reduce crumbling ...

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 ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...