Fifty years ago… We’re flying over Houston, standing in the open hatch, floating above our seat two days after launch. … Read more Gemini 11: Asleep in space
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50 years ago: Gemini 10
Gemini 10, John Young and Mike Collins, a standard three-day Gemini mission. Of course none of them are standard… Read more 50 years ago: Gemini 10
50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
Gemini 9 Exhausting. From the start. And now this. So much to do on short 72-hour Gemini missions. On… Read more 50 years ago: The fog of spaceflight
50 years ago today: Into the drink
Gemini 9 We’re button in our Gemini capsule, aiming 11:41 EDT launch. Two countdowns are underway at once. Over… Read more 50 years ago today: Into the drink
50 years ago today: Gemini 8
A wild ride in space * * March 16, 1966. We’re set to inaugurate the second half of Project… Read more 50 years ago today: Gemini 8
Project Gemini loses a crew
Elliot See and Charlie Bassett * Fifty years ago today, February 28 Gemini 9 coming down… Read more Project Gemini loses a crew
The stuff dreams are made of
Although the mission was barely a minute old, CNN’s Tom Minter was summing up the successful launch, milliseconds from… Read more The stuff dreams are made of
Influenced from above
Only an accident gave us pictures of a Gemini capsule in flight. If all had gone by the plan, Gemini… Read more Influenced from above
50th anniversary — a rendezvous in space
Gemini 7/6 December 4 – 18, 1965 * December. The first Christmas mission. Gemini 7 going first, launched under a… Read more 50th anniversary — a rendezvous in space
A promise unkept
Remembering the Saturn V on its anniversary * Today marks the 48th anniversary of the first launch of the Saturn… Read more A promise unkept
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