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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It flew in August 1965, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on an eight-day mission inside a small Gemini spacecraft. At the time, it was the longest spaceflight conducted by anyone.

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.