On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready ...

Sixty years ago, a fleet of sleek little spaceships paved the way for America to land a man on the Moon. Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous, ...

Early this morning, the crew of a commercial space mission opened the hatch of their Crew Dragon capsule as they orbited 435 miles above Earth. Half the Polaris Dawn crew, SpaceX astronaut Sarah ...

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Gemini 12 was the last mission of the Gemini program. It had two astronauts on board: Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin. NASA wanted to send humans to the moon. But first, it needed to make sure crews had ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for 34 hr. 20 min. Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the ...