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 ready for the Apollo ...

And Wally Schirra, along with Stafford, won seats on Gemini 6, the first space rendezvous. A rendezvous is an intricate ...

Leaping across a dozen feet of empty space from his Gemini capsule to a drifting Agena docking target, he found no handholds, and had to haul himself back via his umbilical and try again.

To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether they are executing a precision rendezvous and docking maneuver with the Mir space station or greasing another shuttle landing, astronauts routinely demonstrate that they are among the best ...

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