But the closest NASA came to losing astronauts during the race to the Moon was a little-known incident in 1966, during the Gemini missions. Specifically, Gemini 8, whose 50th anniversary has just ...

The astronauts took the opportunity to exchange ... Television newsman Walter Cronkite remembered the mission: "Gemini 8 began to tumble and they were working frantically in the spacecraft of ...

The history of Texas’ legacy in the space race from the ’60s-’70s is a storied one, and it started with a lot of hard work by the Lone Star State to get America’s astronauts up to the stars.

Jun 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2022 The Gemini 8 mission launched March 16, 1966, with Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott. While in orbit, Armstrong and Scott achieved the first ...

as on Gemini 8 when Neil Armstrong pulled his craft out of a spin that would have rendered an untrained man unconscious. The duties of the astronauts involved more than their individual missions.

In 1966, the Gemini 8 astronauts pulled off the first-ever emergency landing of a crew in U.S. space mission history after a thruster malfunction caused a near-fatal accident. After splashing down ...