Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing the way ...

To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped ... The range/range-rate meter in the cockpit was a critical instrument for the astronauts.

By week’s end, as Gemini 7 completed its seventh uneventful day in space, the flight had indeed escaped the spine-tingling crises that enlivened—and plagued—earlier shots. But the ennui in ...