Astronauts seem like the buttoned-up type since their very lives depend on getting every detail right. That didn't stop John ...

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Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo ...

From freeze-dried moon soup to a smuggled sandwich, here’s how astronauts have dined beyond Earth — including Shubhanshu ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — T-minus 3, 2, 1. Lift off! From the outside, The Space Museum and Grissom Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, seems like a simple attraction.

On March 23, 1965, Young and Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the first Americans to fly together in space when they completed NASA’s Gemini 3 mission, travelling to a maximum altitude of 140 ...

June 3-7, 1965 – The second piloted Gemini mission, GT-4, stays aloft for four days. Astronaut Edward H. White II performs the first extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or spacewalk by an American.

March 23, 1965 – The first operational mission of Project Gemini takes place, under the command of Mercury astronaut Grissom. June 3-7, 1965 – The second piloted Gemini mission, GT-4, stays ...

Astronaut Grissom managed to get out of the capsule before it sank, but his spacesuit was taking in water through the oxygen vent. He nearly drowned before the Marine helicopter could pluck him ...