Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first ...

The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III, lifted off of Launch Pad 19 in Cape Canaveral on March 23, 1965. [...] ...

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

T he subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Hubble captured this image roughly ...

NASA Confirms Earth Is Safe from 'God of Chaos' Asteroid for the Next 100 Years The Geminids' radiant point "nearly coincides with the bright star Castor in Gemini," according to EarthSky.org.

Ed White had been the first American to walk in space, during Gemini 4, but NASA had difficulty replicating the ease with which White -- acclaimed by his peers as an exceptionally strong and ...

But NASA controlled the launches and crews. That remained true for the Gemini and Apollo programs and the eventual development of the space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft that could glide to a ...