However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA astronaut Ed White is seen on the first American spacewalk from the vantage point of his ...

On Sept. 14, 1966, NASA's Gemini 11 mission set an all-time spaceflight altitude record when two astronauts reached an orbit ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Ed White performs the United States' first spacewalk on June 3, 1965, during the Gemini 4 mission. (James McDivitt / AP) The world’s first spacewalker was ...

On March 16, 1966, the Gemini Vlll astronauts faced the first life-threatening, in-flight emergency in the short history of the U.S. human spaceflight program. Michael J. Neufeld This view of Gemini ...

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