Dogged by minor mishaps, determined to go the full route, the men of Gemini 5 aimed for eight days in orbit —and made it. Early this week Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad maneuvered their spacecraft ...
In 1966, a routine training flight carrying Gemini 9 astronauts ended in tragedy during a stormy landing attempt in St. Louis. Few realize how close this crash came to wiping out the Gemini program ...