commanded by Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions) enters earth orbit in the first test of the spacecraft. October: The Soviets launch the unmanned Soyuz 2.

These were the men of mission control ... the congressional and military red tape. During Mercury, Gemini, and the first manned Apollo flight, the NASA administrator was Jim Webb.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A joint military task force recently conducted search and rescue training off Florida’s east coast as ...

After groundbreaking success with the Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA was rocked by the Apollo 1 disaster, in which three crew members were killed in an accidental fire. But NASA recovered ...

and Apollo. (Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program, and the Gemini program extended NASA's capabilities by ...

In between Mercury and Apollo was NASA’s middle child ... with a manned Gemini launched shortly afterward. The mission plan was for the Gemini crew to locate the GATV, catch up to it, and ...

Mercury/Gemini: The first space suits were ... Apollo: Custom-tailored for a single lunar mission, with boots made for moonwalking, Apollo-era suits were the first equipped with a life-support ...

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 ...

A planetarium in North Carolina has been nominated for Best Planetarium by USA Today’s Readers’ Choice 2025. Morehead ...