IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of a Gemini capsule was ...

Before the Apollo missions, there were the Mercury missions. Astronauts had to learn to walk before they could run. They had to be sure they could get into orbit, then back to Earth safely. They had ...

"These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased." My first job after grad school (1Feb1965) was on Gemini 5. My lab was tasked with ...

On Dec. 15, 1965 — 60 years ago Monday — two crews of NASA astronauts met for the first time in Earth orbit. Trouble was: That hadn’t been the original plan. NASA had turned yet another disappointing ...

While most attention surrounding Houston's role in getting Americans to the moon in the 1960s tends to center on the Apollo program, the one that preceded it tends to get short shrift. The Gemini ...