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An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.
NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready for the Apollo ...
These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...
NASA launched the first uncrewed test flight of the new Gemini spacecraft. This was the very first mission of Project Gemini, which would later send crews of two into orbit. NASA flew a total of 12 ...
I'm going to go up to St. Louis and play with Gemini.' So it was essentially his spacecraft. He practically had it to himself." NASA had been wrestling with the idea of a Mercury followup since 1959.
That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success. Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA ...
In 1966, the Gemini XII Mission concluded the NASA's Project Gemini with Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and James Lovell. During the mission, Aldrin performed three extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) or ...
Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.
Shaken by the near tragedy, but determined to put its lessons to good use on the remaining four Gemini flights, NASA officials last week continued to sift telemetry data to pinpoint the location ...