Gemini program | National Air and Space Museum
Gemini Program. Project Gemini took place between the Mercury program, which was the United States' first human spaceflight program, and the Apollo program, which put the first human on the Moon. Mercury sent astronauts to space for longer periods of time than previously. This allowed NASA to learn more about space's effects on the human body ...
What was the Gemini Program? - National Air and Space Museum
2022年9月22日 · The Apollo command and lunar modules had to link up after a lunar landing. NASA used the Gemini program to practice rendezvous and docking in space. Gemini VI was supposed to dock with an Agena rocket stage, but the Agena failed to reach orbit. So when NASA launched Gemini VII on a 14-day medical mission in late 1965, it also launched Gemini VI ...
The World’s First Space Rendezvous
2015年12月15日 · The World’s First Space Rendezvous. Fifty years ago, on December 15, 1965, Gemini VI and VII met for the first rendezvous in space. This was not NASA’s original plan. Gemini VI, commanded by Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra and piloted by Tom Stafford, was supposed to have orbited on October 25, to rendezvous and dock with an Agena target ...
Spinning Out of Control: Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster
2021年3月16日 · Gemini VIII, joined to its Agena target vehicle, began spinning and gyrating; when the astronauts undocked, Gemini’s rotation accelerated to the point where the crew could black out and die. Neil Armstrong led the mission, which was to demonstrate space docking, a technique essential to the Apollo lunar landing program.
Apollo program - National Air and Space Museum
Many are familiar with Apollo 11, the mission that landed humans on the Moon for the first time. It was part of the larger Apollo program.
Almost Blind and Completely Exhausted: Gene Cernan’s Disastrous …
2021年6月4日 · On June 5, 1966—fifty-five years ago—Eugene Cernan became the third person to walk in space. His spacewalk took place a year and two days after fellow astronaut Ed White had gone outside the spacecraft on Gemini IV for the first American spacewalk.
Bob Gilruth: Architect of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo
2019年7月3日 · In the midst of all this, Bob Gilruth was also farsightedly pushing for a program to bridge the gap in capability between the Mercury and Apollo vehicles. Another spacecraft was needed for Earth-orbit experience in rendezvous and docking, spacewalking, and long-duration spaceflight. In December 1961, NASA approved Project Gemini, which carried ...
Mercury program | National Air and Space Museum
Mercury program. Project Mercury was the United States' first program to put people in space. Beginning in 1958 and completed in 1963, the program made six crewed flights and marked the start of human spaceflight in the United States.
How an Astronaut Smuggled a Sandwich Into Space
2018年11月2日 · Young said Grissom was “bored” with the official menus that they had practiced with in training, and packing a sandwich for the trip “seemed like a fun idea at the time.”. It was not, as it turned out, quite so fun. When the Gemini astronauts got hungry, Young pulled out the smuggled sandwich. In the transcripts of the Gemini 3 mission ...
What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
2022年9月22日 · Its goals are simple to explain. Known as America’s “man-in-space” program, Project Mercury’s aim was to put a man in orbit, understand the technical requirements and medical effects, and bring him back alive. Accomplishing these goals was more complex. That would be the work of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space ...