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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Progress to the moon was planned in three steps: Mercury to prove that space travel was feasible, Gemini to demonstrate rendezvous and long-term spaceflight, and Apollo to go all the way.

Mercury will finish transit in Taurus on June 14 at 11:05 pm and move into its sign, Gemini. It will stay in Gemini until June 29 at 12:26 pm, after which it will enter Cancer. Let's read how ...

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 ...

This timeline highlights key manned and unmanned missions and tests of NASA’s Project Mercury. The primary objectives were to orbit a manned space vessel around Earth, investigate human ability ...

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 ...

Read on for what Mercury in Libra trine Jupiter in Gemini means for your zodiac sign. What's your sign? Subscribe to our free newsletter to get your unique weekly horoscope delivered straight to ...