After six manned Mercury missions came Project Gemini. Buoyed by the success of Mercury, NASA attempted more ambitious tasks in space. "Project Gemini was the training ground for the Moon missions of ...

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 ...

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

Fifty years ago, the two-tiered NASA mission Gemini 7/6A made history by proving that two independently launched spacecraft piloted by astronauts could meet up while orbiting Earth. Humankind’s first ...

Larry Bell (left) and Chet Vaughan worked for many years for NASA from the moon landings to the International Space Station. When former astronauts from the Apollo era pass away, it tends to make the ...

The following is an excerpt from The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published June 11, 2024, by the ...

Fifty-five years ago today, July 15th, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Four days later, two astronauts would become the first humans to walk on the moon. If not for ...

Jim Lovell, the legendary commander of the fateful Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, died on August 7 in Lake Forest, Illinois at the age of 97. Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said in a statement, ...

A "deeply personal" set of images filmed by NASA astronauts which includes the first ever selfie taken in space has been ...

The astronaut’s death was announced by NASA. He was a “veteran of the Gemini VII, Gemini XII, and Apollo 8 missions before becoming the Mission Commander for the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission to ...

In the vastness of the universe, every moment is filled with wonders. Recently, a set of precious photographs that had been sealed for many years has been restored and made public. These images ...

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 ...