Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital mission, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, on February 20 ...

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 ...

Only a handful of NASA giants have commanded first missions in a new spacecraft—Alan Shepard in Mercury, Gus Grissom in ...

There were those who thought that flying two spacecraft whizzing around the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour wouldn’t work, and Gemini sought to prove them wrong. To achieve this, Gemini needed ...