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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The mission’s Agena-D target spacecraft, intended for launch ahead of the astronauts’ capsule, exploded shortly after launch. NASA instead decided to fly Gemini 6 in tandem with Gemini 7 ...

So when American astronaut Ed White was preparing to step out of the Gemini 4 capsule three months later in June of 1965, he believed he really had his work cut out for him.

On his first day in space, White ventured outside the Gemini capsule with the means not only to float but to fly, gripping a stainless-steel gizmo called the “hand-held maneuvering unit,” or HHMU.

The mission’s pilot, Scott Poteet, and medical officer and SpaceX employee Anna Menon will remain inside the capsule. The allure of doing a spacewalk is clear. ... For example on Gemini 9, ...