Gemini Program

Almost Blind and Completely Exhausted: Gene Cernan’s Disastrous Gemini Spacewalk
Space history curator Michael Neufeld recounts the harrowing spacewalk of astronaut Gene Cernan on the Gemini IX-A mission.
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Eugene Cernan is pictured here outside of the Gemini IX-A spacecraft during his extravehicular activity (EVA)

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Wed, Apr 28 2021
Remembering Michael Collins
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A man, Michael Collins, in a space suit looking out.
Thu, Mar 25 2021
Remembering Glynn S. Lunney
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Man sitting at a flight control station
Tue, Mar 16 2021
Spinning Out of Control: Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster
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Three white men lean over the railing of a ship.
Sat, Dec 12 2020
Failure to Launch: The Heart-Stopping Pad Shutdown of Gemini VI-A
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Gemini VI command pilot Wally Schirra and pilot Thomas Stafford arrive at Pad 19.
Wed, Jul 24 2019
Remembering Chris Kraft: Pioneer of Mission Control
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Chris Kraft
Wed, Jul 03 2019
Bob Gilruth: Architect of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo
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formal portrait of a man
Tue, Jul 02 2019
Buzz Aldrin's Ph.D Thesis
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Apollo 11 Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin and Lunar Module Interior
Fri, Nov 02 2018
How an Astronaut Smuggled a Sandwich Into Space
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This view of astronauts John W. Young (left), pilot, and Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot, was taken through the window of the open hatch on Young's side of the Gemini-Titan 3 spacecraft just before the hatches were closed in readiness for their three-orb
Tue, Jul 24 2018
Spaceflight and Surviving Shark Attacks
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Shark Repellent, Project Mercury
Wed, Feb 17 2016
Inventing Underwater Training for Walking in Space
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G. Samuel Mattingly in the Orbital Workshop mockup

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