The plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it tumbled out of control on its high orbit. ... Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott seemed to have come even closer to disaster.

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 ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut, was killed on Friday, June 7, ... Gemini XI, as well as Apollo 11, the first official moon landing in July 1969.

Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash ...

Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr., and William A. Anders ... Borman flew aboard Gemini 7, the program that came before Apollo, and spent 14 days in Earth orbit.

The astronauts did not at first realize that the trouble was in their own craft because Gemini’s maneuvering system had been turned off, decided to unlock because they thought that the ...

William Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, ... Along with serving as a lunar module pilot for Apollo 8, he was also a backup pilot on the Gemini XI and Apollo 11 flights.

Frank Borman, an astronaut who flew on the Apollo 8 mission that orbited the moon, has died, NASA announced. He was 95. Borman died Tuesday in Billings, Montana, according to NASA. NASA ...

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ picture, dies in plane crash at 90 by Alan Boyle on June 7, 2024 at 11:30 pm June 8, 2024 at 12:52 am Share 105 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

He worked in the Gemini program, serving as a backup for the penultimate Gemini 11 mission, and the Apollo program. Anders, ... Anders is the second of the three Apollo 8 astronauts to die.