Gemini 2, like Gemini 1, was an unmanned mission intended as a test flight of the Gemini spacecraft. Unlike Gemini 1, which was placed into orbit, Gemini 2 made a suborbital flight, primarily ...

It was a tall order. The Mercury missions showed that astronauts could live in space for up to a full day. And the Gemini missions built on this experience to make spectacular progress.

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 U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut ... the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule.

as part of their mission objectives. In honour of the Gemini 11 mission, the Polaris Dawn crew carried a medallion designed to resemble the Gemini 11 mission patch, connecting the two historic ...