IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of a Gemini capsule was ...

One of the greatest achievements in human space flight is also one that history overlooks. After the Mercury program—when the U.S. first launched astronauts into space—and before the Apollo program, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a 100-pound thrust Gemini ...

On Sept. 14, 1966, NASA's Gemini 11 mission set an all-time spaceflight altitude record when two astronauts reached an orbit of 850 miles above the Earth. This remains the highest altitude ever ...

Amazon just delivered my copy of Andy Saunders' book. Three hundred pages of color photos of Mercury, Gemini and the astronauts. It measures 11.5" by 12.5" and will make a great coffee table book. The ...

While most attention surrounding Houston's role in getting Americans to the moon in the 1960s tends to center on the Apollo program, the one that preceded it tends to get short shrift. The Gemini ...

Astronauts Tom Stafford (left) and Wally Schirra (right) demonstrating with two model space crafts during an interview in the 1960s Donald Uhrbrock / Getty Images On December 15, 1965, NASA’s mission ...

On Dec. 15, 1965 — 60 years ago Monday — two crews of NASA astronauts met for the first time in Earth orbit. Trouble was: That hadn’t been the original plan. NASA had turned yet another disappointing ...

"These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased." My first job after grad school (1Feb1965) was on Gemini 5. My lab was tasked with ...