Gemini capsule 99 miles high. No attempt was made to orbit; the capsule arched like a missile and plunged down at 16.600 m.p.h. toward a spot in the Atlantic 2,129 miles southeast of the Cape.

was an Agena-D rocket equipped with a docking adapter into which the nosecone of a Gemini capsule could fit. The unmanned GATV would be launched separately and inserted into orbit, with a manned ...

Gemini 3 (Gemini’s first manned mission) was the first time a space capsule changed its orbit mid-flight. Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk. Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for ... the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule.

March 18: Voskhod 2 carries Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov into orbit. Leonov leaves the spacecraft on the first "spacewalk." March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini ...

It marked the farthest orbit of Earth since the Gemini missions during the Apollo ... reached the milestone orbit on a SpaceX ...

was an unmanned mission intended as a test flight of the Gemini spacecraft. Unlike Gemini 1, which was placed into orbit, Gemini 2 made a suborbital flight, primarily intended to test the ...

The Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts ... That’s the highest Earth orbit ever traveled by humans, beating a 1966 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Orion capsule entered an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles around the moon Friday, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight. The capsule and its ...