Happily, the best engineers in the country were on hand in Houston to ... the Moon was possible: Gemini 3 (Gemini’s first manned mission) was the first time a space capsule changed its orbit ...

Announcer: Nowhere are automatic devices more important than in the transistorized mazes of Cape Kennedy and the Houston Space Center ... hanging from the Gemini VII capsule.

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

“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 ...

There are no current plans for Space Center Houston to dig into any more of its exhibits in search of unopened items. "We ...

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.

When thinking about the origins of Johnson Space ... HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM': Where did the saying come from and what does it mean? Work on the Manned Spacecraft Center began in the spring ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On January 19, 1965, NASA’s Gemini II spacecraft launched from Cape Kennedy (now Kennedy Space Center) in Florida. This suborbital flight marked the final test before the ...