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 ...

Thus, on June 3, 1965, Maj. James “Jim” McDivitt and Maj. Edward H. White II, both Air Force officers, took flight from Kennedy Space Center in a Gemini capsule bolted atop a 10-story-tall ...

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 ...

On March 16, 1966, the crewed Gemini 8 spacecraft became the first to dock with another spacecraft in space. NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott launched into orbit in their Gemini ...

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.

Finally, after approximately 23 minutes, he begrudgingly returned to the Gemini capsule — informing Mission Control that it was “the saddest moment of my life.” ...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Fla., shortly after 3:30 a.m., carrying Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, and his crew ...

The Polaris Dawn mission's Crew Dragon capsule is seen Wednesday 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above Earth — the farthest humans have traveled since the Apollo program over 50 years ago.

On Sept. 10, Polaris Dawn set a new altitude record for a crewed spacecraft in Earth orbit, soaring to 870 miles up, surpassing the altitude benchmark established by the Gemini 11 mission, in 1966.

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.