Astronaut John Young likened it to sitting sideways in a phone booth. That compactness earned it the moniker Gusmobile, after Gemini 3 commander Virgil "Gus" Grissom, whose diminutive 5-foot 7 ...

The Titan II that launched the Gemini mission did things a little ... John Glenn in 1962 as well as the other three Mercury astronaut who followed in his orbiting footprints used this kind of staging.

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.

so on all 9 Gemini missions, spacewalks meant opening the hatch and exposing the whole cabin — and both astronauts — to the vacuum of space. Both astronauts had to suit up, and the mission ...

The first crewed flight of Project Gemini was Gemini 3, which launched astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young into space for three orbits and almost five hours before splashing down in the ...

HOUSTON—Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr. and Edwin A. Aldrin Jr. yesterday rode to a bullseye splashdown of Gemini 12 and a five-year, $1.3-billion Gemini space program. Their spacecraft plopped ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Pa. (WHTM) — After six successful missions NASA’s Mercury program came to end on May 16, 1963, when spacecraft Faith-7, carrying Astronaut L. Gordan Cooper, returned to Earth ...

March 18 (UPI) --Former Gemini and Apollo 10 astronaut Thomas Stafford died at his home in Indian Harbor, Fla., on Monday, NASA said. He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air Force lieutenant general ...

Polaris Dawn was now flying higher than the 853-mile-high altitude that the NASA astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon reached during the Gemini XI mission. That had remained the record ...