Gemini 8 was in trouble. After completing the first space docking with another craft, it begins to spin uncontrollably. Ditching protocol, commanding officer Neil Armstrong tries an unorthodox plan.

Television newsman Walter Cronkite remembered the mission: "Gemini 8 began to tumble and they were working frantically in the spacecraft of course, but also on Earth to try to figure out how to ...

March 16: Americans Neil Armstrong and David Scott couple Gemini 8 to an unmanned Agena vehicle, docking two spacecraft together for the first time. Shortly after this feat, Gemini 8 experiences a ...

Gemini was the program that taught NASA how to work in space, and where vital questions would be answered before the big dance of Apollo. Chief among these questions were tackling the problems ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut ... the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule.

Gemini 2, like Gemini 1, 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 ...

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