Gemini 3 (Gemini’s first manned mission) was the first time a space capsule changed its orbit mid-flight. Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk. Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel ...

A Titan II rocket took off from Cape Kennedy and carried a 6,900-lb. Gemini capsule 99 miles high. No attempt was made to orbit; the capsule arched like a missile and plunged down at 16.600 m.p.h ...

20 min. Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule. Gemini fell two years behind schedule because of ...

He is not only one of the most accomplished of the astronauts—he journeyed into space three times, on Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo 17—but one of the most eloquent in describing his ...

Many know Neil Armstrong as the first man to set foot on the moon, but few are aware of the mission he completed before the ...