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 ...
Horizon reporter David Lutyens got to play at the controls of a Gemini spacecraft in 1966. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 8 May 1966 1966: Inside a Gemini spacecraft. Video, 00:02:451966 ...
A commercial space crew has flown ... the previous record for a crewed spacecraft remaining in Earth orbit of 853 miles (1,373 km), achieved by NASA's Gemini 11 mission in 1966.
In contrast, spacecraft that carry a human crew are intensively managed from the ground ... R.H. Goddard Type National Air and Space Museum Computer, Guidance, Gemini 2 National Air and Space Museum ...
As a result, future space flights will probably schedule ... Conrad flipped a switch that jettisoned Gemini’s docking bar, freeing the spacecraft from the connecting rope. As Gemini drifted ...