Here’s how it works. 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 ...

Something similar happened with the U.S. manned space program in the 60s ... with a docking adapter into which the nosecone of a Gemini capsule could fit. The unmanned GATV would be launched ...

Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at ... which are designed to be used only to position the capsule properly as it re-enters the atmosphere ...

As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

Later reports indicate that Laika died soon after liftoff, from stress and high temperatures inside the capsule ... and Lovell in Gemini 7, for the first true rendezvous in space.