Designed to carry two astronauts into orbit, Gemini looks unlike any other spacecraft before or since. Inside the cone-shaped capsule are two seats, an instrument panel and central control console ...

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All in all, the interior of the Gemini capsule was only slightly larger than the front seat of a small car. During the flight of Gemini 7, Borman and Lovell had plenty of work to do.

The craft was essentially a giant Gemini capsule, which could seat up to 12. ... The "Big G" was a big change from the two-seat Gemini capsules used by the agency in the early 1960s.

At 10,000 feet the Gemini's 58-foot-wide main chute unfurled and the spacecraft pitched forward so its occupants could return to Earth upright. "The Gemini splashdown was easy," Dick Gordon says.

The Gemini spacecraft didn’t come with airlocks, so on all 9 Gemini missions, spacewalks meant opening the hatch and exposing the whole cabin — and both astronauts — to the vacuum of 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.

At this point, all that was left was to safely come home. With the spacecraft’s fuel almost spent and its batteries fading, Gemini 7 successfully returned to Earth on December 18, 1965, completing its ...

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.