Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...
In between Mercury and Apollo was NASA’s middle child, Project Gemini. Underappreciated at the time and even still today, Gemini was the necessary link between learning to get into orbit and ...
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...
thanks to Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff and the movie Apollo 13. But the closest NASA came to losing astronauts during the race to the Moon was a little-known incident in 1966, during the Gemini ...
"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...
Gemini, and Apollo. (Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program, and the Gemini program extended NASA's capabilities ...
Originally Lovell had been assigned to the Apollo 8 backup crew. But when Mike Collins had to drop out for surgery on his spine, Lovell was reunited with his Gemini commander, Borman, for Apollo 8.
When Google debuted Gemini 1.5 Pro in February ... It said, for example, the algorithm could provide details about a 402-page Apollo 11 mission transcript. Now, Google is giving people a practical ...