After flying a loop around it, to make sure it hadn’t been damaged during its launch, Armstrong started to gingerly fly the Gemini capsule toward the docking collar. The speed difference between ...

There were those who thought that flying two spacecraft whizzing around the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour wouldn’t work, and Gemini sought to prove them wrong. To achieve this, Gemini needed ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On January 19, 1965, NASA’s Gemini II spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy (now Kennedy Space Center) in Florida. This suborbital flight marked the final test before the ...

Two astronauts are seated inside the Gemini spacecraft in this artist’s concept made in January 1965. The Gemini program was ...

Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing ...

Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing ...

So when American astronaut Ed White was preparing to step out of the Gemini 4 capsule three months later in June of 1965, he believed he really had his work cut out for him. Not only had the ...

Moving with exquisite precision across the night sky, the spacecraft Gemini 6 tracked down its partner, Gemini 7. As the two ships edged closer to fly in formation, then circle each other in a ...