On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III, lifted off of Launch Pad 19 in Cape Canaveral on March 23, 1965. [...] ...

Gemini fell two years behind schedule because ... one of them may actually step out altogether. The space capsule, of course, has been redesigned. Its outside dimensions are only slightly larger ...

Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet prior to flight.

To achieve this, Gemini needed something no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers, building a special ...

The US astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are home at last — more than nine months after their days-long ...