On June 3, 1965, during the Gemini IV mission, astronaut Edward White made history as the first American to conduct a spacewalk. This milestone followed the world's first-ever spacewalk by Russian ...

Gemini V, launched on August 21, 1965, was a crucial mission in NASA's Gemini program, focusing on long-duration spaceflight and its effects on astronauts, as it lasted eight days. The mission ...

Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous, docking, and maneuvering in-space, as well as spacewalking — all of which had to be perfected before ...

Like all Gemini missions before it, last week's flight of Gemini 11 was a carefully planned practice session de signed to teach U.S. spacemen as much as possible about the techniques they must ...

The Gemini spacecraft didn’t come with airlocks, so on all 9 Gemini missions, spacewalks meant opening the hatch and exposing the whole cabin — and both astronauts — to the vacuum of space.

The mission’s pilot, Scott Poteet, and medical officer and SpaceX employee Anna Menon will remain inside the capsule. The allure of doing a spacewalk is clear.