To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special ...

Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when ... the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule. Gemini fell two years behind schedule ...

Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate. Unable to stabilize the joined spacecraft, Armstrong resorted to a last-ditch ...