The Gemini 6 capsule, which in 1965 achieved the first rendezvous with another crewed spacecraft, quietly made the move last week to the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The ...

Gemini 4’s ascent went precisely according to plan: accelerating to 17,500 m.p.h., the spacecraft entered into an orbit that took it 175 miles high at apogee, 100 miles high at perigee.

Gemini demonstrated spacewalks, how to dock two spacecraft, and the challenges of living in orbit for long periods of time. The flights tested space food, life support, and fuel cells.

In fact, it was a model of a Gemini spacecraft, the two-man capsule that NASA was flying at the time the archive was buried outside the Clear Lake Theatre in Houston on April 20, 1966.

David Ursin hopes to find a buyer who will pay $65,000 for his Gemini capsule, a piece of US space history. It was used by NASA as a test craft and did not travel into space.

In 1967 NASA transferred the spacecraft to the Smithsonian. Impact or Innovation Gemini IV achieved the first American spacewalk, a major step toward living and working in space. Brief Description The ...