Sixty years ago, a fleet of sleek little spaceships paved the way for America to land a man on the Moon. Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous, ...

Could astronauts manipulate their trajectory with ... But we got some pretty good pictures on that one." By 40,000 feet the Gemini crew deployed a drogue chute, which further slowed and stabilized ...

A new record has been set for the most paid at auction for an astronaut's timepiece. The 18-karat gold Omega Speedmaster that ...

But astronaut ice cream came with the ultimate ... Famously, a corned-beef sandwich was smuggled aboard Gemini 3 by pilot John W. Young. This may have been seen as a triumph for devotees of ...

Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.

The plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it ... when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott seemed to ...

Cooper, a veteran NASA pilot who participated in the Mercury and Gemini programs ... was part of the Apollo 14 crew and became one of the 12 astronauts to walk on the Moon in 1971.

They are now slated to fly home with Crew-9 commander and NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos ... the first space shuttle flight on top of two Gemini and two Apollo missions.

But early Gemini crews’ efforts to station-keep with the discarded upper stages of their Titan II rockets in orbit yielded mixed results. Astronauts struggled to judge distances by eyesight alone.