of thrust. Once in orbit, the astronauts riding the Gemini’s cramped capsule will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them ...

So it’s not hard to imagine how White must have felt when he pulled the lever to open the hatch on the Gemini spacecraft, only to find it refused to budge. As it so happens, this wasn’t the ...

God, if only I were a poet. An astronaut's-eye view of Africa's Lake Chad, taken from the Gemini 9 spacecraft. When the hatch stood open, I barely pushed against the floor of the spacecraft and my ...

Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing ...