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 ...

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 ...

On June 3, 1965, during the Gemini IV mission, astronaut Edward White made history as the first American to conduct a spacewalk. This milestone followed the world's first-ever spacewalk by Russian ...

Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This certificate attests that a ...

Ed White taking the first human-taken photographs from outer space during the first US spacewalk, James McDivitt [Gemini IV], 3-7 June 1965, 1965 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This desk stand commemorating the ...

HOUSTON — On March 23, 1965, Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first two-person spaceflight. Launched 60 years ago ...