While the Gemini North Telescope may be at a high enough elevation to avoid light pollution, it has another issue that might ...

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 ...

Gemini 6 made the first-ever orbital rendezvous, with Gemini 7, which was then making the first-ever two-week space flight. Gemini 8 would be the most complicated mission to date — the first ...

The final Gemini flight brought the total time in space by Mercury and Gemini astronauts to 1,994 hours, 14 minutes and 53 seconds. This compares with 507 hors and 16 minutes for Soviet cosmonauts ...

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 ...

The Gemini spacecraft helped NASA bridge the experience and skills gap between simple Mercury flights and complex Apollo lunar missions. If a 1962 proposal had gone ahead, small modular space ...

It is 50 years since Nasa’s Gemini spacecraft flew into orbit. Richard Hollingham looks back on one of the space race’s most daring and hair-raising missions.

On March 23, 1965, NASA launched the Gemini 3 mission, NASA's first crewed Gemini flight, with astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young aboard. See how the mission went in photos in this space ...

HOUSTON—Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr. and Edwin A. Aldrin Jr. yesterday rode to a bullseye splashdown of Gemini 12 and a five-year, $1.3-billion Gemini space program. Their spacecraft plopped ...