Young launched the first manned Gemini flight, Gemini-3. February 20, 1962: John Glenn orbits the Earth The Gemini capsules looked a lot like the Mercury spacecraft but were much larger since they ...

Astronaut John Young likened it to sitting sideways ... NASA instead decided to fly Gemini 6 in tandem with Gemini 7, using the latter as the target spacecraft. In December 1965, Schirra and ...

Gemini 2 successfully tested the spacecraft’s heat shield on a suborbital flight. The first crewed flight of Project Gemini was Gemini 3, which launched astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young ...

John Young remembers the colors ... Wally Schirra describes the other: "Gemini was my favorite spacecraft," he says, "but it made a lousy boat." While Gemini was making crews seasick, NASA ...

What went wrong last month when the Gemini capsule Molly Brown ... goof by Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young. According to Dr. Dotts, the capsule did not develop as much lift during re-entry ...

As John Young readied for launch of Gemini 3 in March of 1965, he displayed a calm that would become one of his best-known characteristics. Biometric data showed his heartbeat was normal ...

HOUSTON — On March 23, 1965, Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John ... spacecraft’s design. A light moment emerged when Young ...