Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Gemini was the program that taught NASA how to work in space, and where vital questions would be answered before the big dance of Apollo. Chief among these questions were tackling the problems ...

Gemini fell two years behind schedule because ... The cast of characters is different too. Gone from the space program is Colonel Shorty Powers, the public affairs officer whose calm voice ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore returned from the International Space Station in a Dragon capsule from Elon ...

Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

Gemini 8’s ordeal began shortly after its docking triumph, when Armstrong and Scott began a program of planned maneuvers ... to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly ...

The Gemini program will solve many of the problems ... January: Sergei Korolov, the driving force behind the Soviet space program, dies. His successors will not wield the same political influence ...