Horizon reporter David Lutyens got to play at the controls of a Gemini spacecraft in 1966. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 8 May 1966 1966: Inside a Gemini spacecraft. Video, 00:02:451966 ...

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.

At the point of contact three clamps inside the Agena grabbed hold and pulled the spacecraft closer, and electrical cables connected, enabling the astronauts to control the Agena-Gemini stack.

In Gemini 4, the U.S. took a big step toward closing the gap in the man-in-space race, in which the Soviet Union got off to a head start. More important, the flight signaled the advent of the ...

Bassett will be not so much outside one vehicle as inside another. His air-conditioned suit with its $6,000,000 backpack containing 166 lbs. of assorted gadgetry will amount to a spacecraft in itself.

It flew in August 1965, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on an eight-day mission inside a small Gemini spacecraft. At the time, it was the longest spaceflight conducted by anyone.

On June 7, 1965, after a four-day mission and 62 orbits, NASA's Gemini 4 mission returned to Earth with an Atlantic Ocean splashdown. Gemini 4 was NASA's 10th manned spaceflight. It included the ...