If Gemini 8 had failed, NASA would most ikely have been shut down. Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital ...

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 ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...

“What a helluva bore,” yawned a controller at Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center ... By week’s end, as Gemini 7 completed its seventh uneventful day in space, the flight had indeed escaped ...

The successful docking makes India the fourth country in the world — after the United States, Russia, and China — to have ...

“Spotted Gemini 7 at 12 o’clock high,” he reported. Astronauts Borman and Lovell, who had been flying most of their mission in underwear, were now in their space suits. If the two spacecraft ...

India has joined the exclusive club of spacefaring nations capable of docking satellites in orbit! The Indian Space Research ...

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 ...