On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...
The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III, lifted off of Launch Pad 19 in Cape Canaveral on March 23, 1965. [...] ...
Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight.
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...
The two Boeing Starliner astronauts left behind on the International Space Station are back on Earth, ending an odyssey that ...
The splashdown method of landing is advantageous because it allows for a softer landing; the waterbody provides vast space ...
Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.
NASA bumped up the return flight home plans for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that includes a pair of astronauts who were left ...
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally returning from the International Space Station. But how did the ...
That remained true for the Gemini and Apollo programs and the eventual development of the space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft that could glide to a landing rather than be recovered from the ocean.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore return to Earth after 9 months aboard the ISS, with a planned splashdown ...