During Gemini 7's 13th circuit around Earth, this image of the Tifermine Sand Dunes south of the Fort Flatters area of Algeria with its orange sand dunes reaching 1,000 feet high. During the 14-day ...

Fifty years ago, the two-tiered NASA mission Gemini 7/6A made history by proving that two independently launched spacecraft piloted by astronauts could meet up while orbiting Earth. Humankind’s first ...

This series will explore historic space missions from the start of the Space Age to the present day, including both crewed and robotic missions. Here we will investigate the scientific rationale ...

To fully understand the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, you really had to live through it. When the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, and sent the ...

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At the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, Douglas S. Idlly demonstrates the Optical Communications Transmitter during a Nov. 10, 1965 briefing. Astronauts Jim Lovell (right) and Frank Borman ...