Something similar happened with the U.S. manned space program in the ... In between Mercury and Apollo was NASA’s middle child, Project Gemini. Underappreciated at the time and even still ...

How do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California ...

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 ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

How do space programs get ... Greece and Rome. Mercury, the ancient Roman messenger of the gods, was the name chosen for the first program of human spaceflight. Gemini, the mythological twins ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space ... redesign work, Apollo 7, commanded by Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions) enters ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Like all of the astronauts who flew Gemini and Apollo missions, NASA issued Armstrong with an Omega ...

In 1966, rookie Buzz had been on the Gemini 12 mission to space with the aim of proving astronauts could work effectively outside the spacecraft, which was all part of NASA gearing up for Apollo 11.