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3 days ago · Project Gemini ( IPA: / ˈdʒɛmɪni /) was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly. Conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in early development, Gemini was conceived in 1961 and concluded in 1966. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew.
May 29, 2024 · Astronauts John Young and Michael Collins launched on the Gemini X mission on July 18, 1966, landing nearly 3 days later on July 21. Photos from the Gemini X mission.
May 29, 2024 · Photos from the seventh crewed Gemini mission: Gemini IX. Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan demonstrated rendezvous and docking with a target vehicle and a spacewalk.
May 29, 2024 · Gemini X was the eighth crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series, carrying astronauts John Young and Michael Collins. Its primary purpose was to conduct rendezvous and docking tests with the Agena target vehicle.
2 days ago · Gemini Program. The Gemini program was designed as a bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs, primarily to test equipment and mission procedures in Earth orbit and to train astronauts and ground crews for future Apollo missions.
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.
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May 22, 2024 · In a breathless series of 10 manned flights spread across only 20 months of 1965 and 1966, Gemini propelled NASA from being a tentative, inexperienced space agency to a tough, competent and confident organisation that could send astronauts to another world.
