Astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra delighted mission control with their rendition of the Christmas classic ...

As NASA pushed the boundaries of human endurance in space 60 years ago, the Gemini VII mission revealed not only the possibilities of long-duration orbital flight but also the physical challenges ...

Never-before-seen photographs have been released showing NASA astronauts testing the limits of human endurance and technology needed to get humans to the moon and back. The restored photos from the ...

Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program.

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 ...

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...

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"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 ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.