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 ...

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 ...

“Gus” Grissom (left) and John W. Young. (NASA) Often described as a "bridge" from Project Mercury to the Apollo moon program, Project Gemini introduced a two-person capsule and, in its first ...

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 ...

Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate. Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to a last-ditch ...

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 ...

Shot by a camera through the spacecraft’s window, the movie films first showed the Agena target vehicle sailing serenely through space (see opposite page) as the Gemini maneuvered carefully ...