In between Mercury and Apollo was NASA’s middle child, Project Gemini. Underappreciated at the time and even still today, Gemini was the necessary link between learning to get into orbit and ...
In 1959, our machines actually began to go there. A decade later, humans walked on its surface. The Destination Moon exhibition features iconic objects from the Museum's unrivaled collection of ...
it’s no wonder that we’re steadily losing the men who rode the rockets of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs into space. They were all very much in their primes at the time, but no ...
On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 ...
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Addison Leroy Bain, 89, passed away in Melbourne, Florida, on January 22, 2025. It was determined that another scientist was needed in the universe to study the galaxy and ...
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On January 19, 1965, NASA’s Gemini II spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy (now Kennedy Space Center) in Florida. This suborbital flight marked the final test before the ...