Gemini 3 (Gemini’s first manned mission) was the first time a space capsule changed its orbit mid-flight. Gemini 4 featured the first space-walk. Gemini 5, the first use of oxygen-hydrogen fuel ...

March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini spacecraft, Gemini 3, named the Molly Brown in recognition of Grissom's Mercury splashdown. The Gemini program will solve many ...

Learn why the Gemini spacecraft was nicknamed the “Gusmobile” and why Gus Grissom caught flack from NASA for christening his Gemini 3 spacecraft “The Molly Brown.” See photos and video or ...

But Apollo was only the last step in a series of spaceflight programs, beginning with the single-seat Mercury, followed by the Gemini program where Americans ... National Air and Space Museum Capsule, ...

After briefly exiting the capsule to test the mobility of ... The first American to go on a spacewalk was Ed White, on June 3 ...

It will also mark their fourth spacecraft within which they will have traveled ... Orlando was a member of three NASA programs flying on the first manned Gemini mission, Gemini 3, and later on Gemini ...

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To date, the spacecraft has traveled more than 1.3 billion miles and spent more than ... That’s the shortest time between launches came during four Gemini program missions that flew in 1966.