during the Gemini missions. Specifically, Gemini 8, whose 50th anniversary has just passed. In fact, if it weren’t for the extremely quick thinking of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong ...

Television newsman Walter Cronkite remembered the mission: "Gemini 8 began to tumble and they were working frantically in the spacecraft of course, but also on Earth to try to figure out how to ...

Jun 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2022 The Gemini 8 mission launched March 16, 1966, with Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott. While in orbit, Armstrong and Scott achieved the first ...

Shortly after this feat, Gemini 8 experiences a stuck thruster, causing the craft to tumble wildly, and the rest of the mission is aborted. Following reports of Gemini 8's problems, the Soviet ...