During Gemini, astronauts could talk to the boss, James McDonnell himself, but North American was a very different corporate beast. Yet North American faced its own challenges, notably NASA’s ...

He thus became the first U.S. astronaut to fly without a pressurized suit, which affords the only protection against a sudden, accidental decompression of the Gemini spacecraft. Higher in Orbit.

Gemini III with astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young became America's first two men space flight. Then in June came Gemini IV with space twins McDivitt and White up for 62 orbits. Flight landed ...

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

Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, rushed to the Chaffee home to comfort the family and Jim McDavitt, a Gemini astronaut, visited White's family. Wall Schirra, commander of the backup ...

And a public grown almost blasé about news of men in orbit waited for the astronauts’ return with singular pride. While the World Watched. By the time Gemini 6 began its searing descent through ...

“I decided I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 10 years old.,” says Collins. “There was an article on the Gemini Astronauts. The Gemini Program, that’s back in the late ‘60s. They ...