Despite the hiccups while testing rendezvous and docking, Gemini's astronauts always made it back to Earth. The spacecraft computer could predict the end-of-mission splashdown point, allowing the ...

Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk. Gemini 5 ... Armstrong and Scott had to spend three hours bobbing around in the ocean, desperately sea-sick, while they waited for a Navy destroyer to ...

Grissom became the first human to enter space twice ... and 31 seconds aloft, Gemini III splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean near Grand Turk Island, 52 miles short of its target.

Gemini’s astronauts always made it back to Earth. The spacecraft computer could predict the end-of-mission splashdown point, allowing the commander to steer toward the target in the ocean.