If Gemini 8 had failed, NASA would most ikely have been shut down. Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its ... country were on hand in Houston to figure out a way ...

“What a helluva bore,” yawned a controller at Houston ... Spacecraft Center as Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell monotonously orbited the earth last week. By week’s end, as Gemini ...

After Houston-built spacecraft made history this year ... Meanwhile, Johnson Space Center itself is undergoing an overhaul to attract potential companies to Houston. Here are some of the Houston ...

Moving with exquisite precision across the night sky, the spacecraft Gemini 6 tracked down its ... the bowels of NASA’s Mission Control Center near Houston. Primped and primed and ready to ...

Gemini was the program that taught NASA how to work in space ... tip of the capsule. The business end was four flat fiberglass discs with interlaced spiral elements wound from center to edge.

November: The Space Task Group is renamed the Manned Spacecraft Center, to be relocated to Houston, Texas ... and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini spacecraft, Gemini 3, named the ...