The plight of Gemini 8 seemed desperate enough while it tumbled out of control on its high orbit. Last week, when the perils of that wild ride were reviewed at a Houston press conference, ...

In March 1966, astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott faced a nightmare in space. During Gemini 8’s mission, their spacecraft went into an uncontrollable spin, threatening to tear them apart ...

It flew on the Gemini 8 mission, on March 16, 1966, piloted by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott. Gemini Guidance Computers were stored-program, digital, real-time, solid state computers, which ...

Ablative heat shields are not reusable. This fragment was part of the heat shield of Gemini 8, which carried astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott into orbit on March 16, 1966. After the mission, ...