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May 31, 2024 · This incredibly rare and very historic piece of NASA space history is an original "Gemini VIII" astronaut mission match that was worn as well as given to astronauts, Mission Control personnel, and other NASA scientists who played a role in the 1966 Gemini VIII mission and Project Gemini Program. On March 16, 1966, Gemini VIII, piloted by Neil ...
2 days ago · For the first time ever, a manned Boeing Starliner spacecraft has achieved operational test orbit with two astronauts on board. Retired U.S. Navy Captain, Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and ...
May 31, 2024 · When it started in the early 1990s, NASA’s Discovery Program represented a breakthrough in how NASA explored space. The newest book in the NASA History Series takes an in-depth look at the management techniques used to design creative and cost-effective spacecraft that continue to yield ground-breaking scientific data, drive new technology innovations, and achieve what has never been done ...
4 days ago · 3 June 1966: NASA Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan launched from Launch Complex 19, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 13:39:33 UTC, aboard Gemini IX-A. The Gemini was a two-man space capsule built by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis. The launch vehicle was a Titan II GLV rocket.
May 29, 2024 · Answer: 2. The first two Gemini missions were unmanned and designed to test all of the equipment to be used in the later manned flights. Gemini 1 was launched on April 8, 1964 and lasted for 3 orbits of the earth. It successfully tested the Titan-II launch vehicle, the integrity of the spacecraft and the launch vehicle.
May 17, 2024 · Earth’s Moon is a 4.5-billion-year-old time capsule, pristinely preserved by the cold vacuum of space. The lunar samples returned during the Apollo Program dramatically changed our view of the solar system, and scientists continue to unlock new secrets from those samples. Yet, we are just scratching the surface of knowledge about the Moon.
4 days ago · Retrofire took place on the 7th revolution at 9:45:49 p.m. on 16 March, just over 10 hours after launch, and the spacecraft splashed down in the western Pacific Ocean about 800 km west of Okinawa at 25.22 N, 136.00 E, 2 km from the target. The time was 10:22:28 p.m. EST, but was during the day at the splashdown site.
