Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk ... Gemini 8 would have to reenter the atmosphere beyond the range of NASA’s tracking stations, over China, and land 500 miles east of Okinawa.

In between Mercury and Apollo was NASA’s middle child, Project Gemini. Underappreciated at the time and even still today, Gemini was the necessary link between learning to get into orbit and ...

10 x 7.99 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) ...