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.

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

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, ...

After launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida, the Gemini 3 astronauts completed three orbits ... the California native was also among the Apollo 10 crew that flew into lunar orbit, as part ...

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 ...

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on December 4, 1965. According to NASA, the flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes ...

Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon thought they were attending routine meetings in 2021 at SpaceX when they were invited to become part of the crew for what would become the record-setting Polaris Dawn space ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

Chandrayaan-3 and the upcoming first-ever manned mission, Gaganyaan – former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said ISRO has a great future with the technology and talent to be successful ...

Since its inception in 1966, Star Trek has inspired astronauts, scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts who believed in Gene Roddenberry’s vision of space exploration.

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 ...