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NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time.
NASA launched the first uncrewed test flight of the new Gemini spacecraft. This was the very first mission of Project Gemini, which would later send crews of two into orbit. NASA flew a total of 12 ...
And Wally Schirra, along with Stafford, won seats on Gemini 6, the first space rendezvous. A rendezvous is an intricate ballet of celestial mechanics to bring two spacecraft in differing orbital ...
Shot by a camera through the spacecraft’s window, the movie films first showed the Agena target vehicle sailing serenely through space (see opposite page) as the Gemini maneuvered carefully ...
Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate. Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to a last-ditch ...
Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard is composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule and is designed to be fully reusable. The New Shepard's crew ...
Here’s how it works. A small space private capsule has captured stunning onboard scenes from its high-velocity atmospheric reentry. Varda Space's W-2 mission came to a successful and spectacular ...
In 2021, one single dolphin was photographed swimming near the recovery boats that were on their way to pick up the Dragon spacecraft used for SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission. As the recovery team ...
Related: NASA's Deep Space Network: How spacecraft phone home To transmit communications throughout the solar system, the three DSN facilities are strategically placed around the globe so one can ...
highlighting the need for multimode propulsion in spacecraft, according to industry panelists at the 40th Space Symposium. Multimode means an engine that can operate in a high efficiency/low ...