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 ...

That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success. Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA ...

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

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 ...

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

Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...

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 ...