On March 16, 1966, Neil Armstrong, in front, and David Scott leave the suit up trailer to board the transfer van for the short trip to Launch Pad 19 at Cape Kennedy. Behind Scott is Chief Astronaut ...

While most attention surrounding Houston's role in getting Americans to the moon in the 1960s tends to center on the Apollo program, the one that preceded it tends to get short shrift. The Gemini ...

One of the greatest achievements in human space flight is also one that history overlooks. After the Mercury program—when the U.S. first launched astronauts into space—and before the Apollo program, ...

With 12 flights designed to finetune NASA’s spaceflight procedures, the Gemini program followed Project Mercury and was an essential precursor to the Apollo program. While the Mercury program proved ...

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...