But the closest NASA came to losing astronauts during the race to the Moon was a little-known incident in 1966, during the Gemini missions. Specifically, Gemini 8, whose 50th anniversary has just ...

He thus became the first U.S. astronaut to fly without a pressurized suit, which affords the only protection against a sudden, accidental decompression of the Gemini spacecraft. Higher in Orbit.

Gemini III with astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young became America's first two men space flight. Then in June came Gemini IV with space twins McDivitt and White up for 62 orbits. Flight landed ...

Hutchinson? Former astronaut James Lovell Jr. peered deep inside the Gemini 12 capsule that he flew in November 1966 during the first space mission in which two spaceships docked. “All the spots ...

During Gemini, astronauts could talk to the boss, James McDonnell himself, but North American was a very different corporate beast. Yet North American faced its own challenges, notably NASA’s ...

Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, rushed to the Chaffee home to comfort the family and Jim McDavitt, a Gemini astronaut, visited White's family. Wall Schirra, commander of the backup ...

And a public grown almost blasé about news of men in orbit waited for the astronauts’ return with singular pride. While the World Watched. By the time Gemini 6 began its searing descent through ...

“I decided I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 10 years old.,” says Collins. “There was an article on the Gemini Astronauts. The Gemini Program, that’s back in the late ‘60s. They ...

“Today General Tom Stafford went to the eternal heavens which he so courageously explored as a Gemini and Apollo astronaut as well as a peacemaker in Apollo Soyuz,” NASA Administrator Bill ...