Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight.

Gemini fell ... The space capsule, of course, has been redesigned. Its outside dimensions are only slightly larger than Mercury’s, but room has been made inside for a second man.

There were those who thought that flying two spacecraft whizzing around the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour wouldn’t work, and Gemini sought to prove them wrong. To achieve this, Gemini needed ...

Reaching blindly inside the mechanism ... a small self-contained spacecraft in its own right. Photo of the Gemini spacecraft taken by Gene Cernan But as soon as he left the capsule, Cernan ...