Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee would likely have gone to the moon. Mixed with their sorrow was another reaction: disbelief. Before each piloted Mercury and Gemini ...

October 11-12: After extensive redesign work, Apollo 7, commanded by Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions) enters earth orbit in the first test of the ...

That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury ... enough credit to the Gemini program. It proved every single thing we had to do in Apollo. You know, long duration ...

A decade later, humans walked on its surface. The Destination Moon exhibition features iconic objects from the Museum's unrivaled collection of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo artifacts, including Alan ...

Project Mercury, America's first human space program, had systems that were largely automated. Gemini was different ... It ...

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 ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

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 ...

She also mentioned that some of Edgar's colleagues, including Apollo crewmate James McDivitt ... Cooper, a seasoned NASA pilot who took part in the Mercury and Gemini programs, had thousands ...