The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...
To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special ...
like docking vehicles in space and taking spacewalks. Before Gemini 12, astronauts struggled with spacewalks because there weren't enough handholds on their spacecraft. NASA made some spacewalk ...
Gemini 8 was in trouble. After completing the first space docking with another craft, it begins to spin uncontrollably. Ditching protocol, commanding officer Neil Armstrong tries an unorthodox plan.
Those would send crew up in the Gemini capsule on Titan rockets about 100 minutes after Atlas boosters had sent up Agena Target Vehicles with which they would rendezvous in space. The record ...
November: The Space Task Group is renamed the Manned ... March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini spacecraft, Gemini 3, named the Molly Brown in recognition of ...
The first such human rendezvous in space was conducted on December 15, 1965, by those aboard the Gemini VI and Gemini VII spacecraft. Gemini VI and VII, however, were never meant to fly together ...