In 1966, Gemini VIII made the first U.S. docking in space; 27 minutes later, a stuck thruster sent it spinning near 1 revolution per second before Neil Armstrong stoppe…

The Gemini VIII mission quickly transitioned from a planned rendezvous to a critical in-flight emergency. Astronauts Neil ...

In 1966, Michael Collins lost a camera and a micrometeorite experiment during a Gemini X spacewalk; both drifted away into orbit

During the Gemini X mission in 1966, astronaut Michael Collins faced setbacks when he lost both his camera and a scientific ...
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Chilling Audio of Gemini 7 Astronauts Claiming They Saw 'Brilliant Body' Spewing 'Trillions of Particles' Through Space Is Released Decades After Encounter

Long-hidden documents and audio recordings that have just been released reveal the eerie moment 60 years ago when astronauts aboard the Gemini 7 space mission encountered a UFO, RadarOnline.com can ...
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View From Above: Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments

Min Read Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (shown here) participated in visual experiments during ...
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This Astronaut Snuck a Corned Beef Sandwich in His Suit — Here’s Why NASA Saw This as a Serious Risk

Astronauts need to eat, too. But figuring out how to feed humans in microgravity wasn’t easy. And back in the 1960s, a single smuggled sandwich almost spelled the end of the Space Race. In March of ...
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Gemini TTV-1 Paraglider Capsule

Curator Michael Neufeld describes a paraglider landing system, considered by NASA at the beginning of the Gemini program, that would have the two-man Gemini capsule land on a runway after its return ...
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The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments

NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet ...