After flying a loop around it, to make sure it hadn’t been damaged during its launch, Armstrong started to gingerly fly the Gemini capsule toward the docking collar. The speed difference between ...

The Northeast Pennsylvania Quilts of Valor Chapter recently presented a quilt of valor to U.S. Navy veteran Carl Oberst.

Although MOL borrowed ideas and hardware (including a modified Gemini space capsule) from NASA, its reconnaissance mission was strictly classified. National Museum of the USAF The moment ...

Black and white and, unlike its predecessor, a two-seater, it was soon renamed Gemini, after the zodiac sign for twins. But many of the pilots who would ride the enlarged Mercury-type capsule into ...

On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ...

And Wally Schirra, along with Stafford, won seats on Gemini 6, the first space rendezvous. A rendezvous is an intricate ballet of celestial mechanics to bring two spacecraft in differing orbital ...

SHAVERTOWN — The Northeast PA Quilts of Valor Chapter recently presented a quilt of valor to U.S. Navy veteran Carl Oberst.

So when American astronaut Ed White was preparing to step out of the Gemini 4 capsule three months later in June of 1965, he believed he really had his work cut out for him. Not only had the ...

"The first orbital-class spacecraft to be reused, however, was a NASA Gemini capsule that was launched on two suborbital flights (the second flight in 1966 was a test for the U.S. Air Force’s ...