By Ben Evans, on January 24th, 2017
Gene Cernan salutes the U.S. flag at Taurus-Littrow in December 1972. Photo Credit: NASA
A little more than a week since his passing, aged 82, veteran astronaut and Navy Capt. Eugene Cernan—the last man to have left his footprints on the surface of the Moon—was honored today in a touching funeral service at […]
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By Ben Evans, on January 16th, 2017
Gene Cernan salutes the U.S. flag at Taurus-Littrow in December 1972. Photo Credit: NASA
On 16 January, a day of reflection—the 14th anniversary of the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on her final mission—the world lost a shining light in the early annals of human space exploration. Retired Navy Capt. Gene Cernan, veteran […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 16th, 2016
Six hours after launching from Cape Kennedy on 18 July 1966, Gemini X Command Pilot John Young and Pilot Mike Collins rendezvoused and docked with Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle (GATV)-5005. It was the first of a record-setting two rendezvous to be performed during their three-day mission. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de
Fifty years […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 8th, 2014 Gene Cernan’s EVA was the longest to date, by far the most complex … and intrinsically hazardous. Photo Credit: NASA
Almost five decades ago, one of the hairiest and most difficult missions in America’s space history unfolded. Gemini IX-A was already complex—a three-day flight, involving rendezvous, docking, maneuvering, and spacewalking—but had endured additional […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 7th, 2014 An exhausted Gene Cernan can barely manage a grimace for Tom Stafford’s camera after completing his spacewalk on Gemini IX-A. Had the hands of fate played out a little differently, this seat might instead have been occupied by Charlie Bassett. Photo Credit: NASA
In the late spring of 1966, the Gemini IX mission […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 3rd, 2013 Buzz Aldrin participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in November 1966. Although his activities broke little new ground, Aldrin successfully demonstrated the intricacies of EVA, ahead of Project Apollo. Photo Credit: NASA
Almost four decades ago, on 11 November 1966, astronauts Jim Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin rocketed into orbit aboard […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 2nd, 2013 The nose of Gemini XII and the grandeur of Earth, as captured by Buzz Aldrin during one of his sessions of EVA. Photo Credit: NASA
Not long after his return from the Gemini IX-A mission, astronaut Gene Cernan was summoned to Deke Slayton’s office and was asked an unusual question.
“Geno, how soon […]
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By Ben Evans, on September 7th, 2013 Dick Gordon (left) and Pete Conrad await the start of an emergency water egress training exercise in the Gulf of Mexico in July 1966. Photo Credit: NASA
Not all astronauts get on with one another, but if there ever was a crew whose members could be described as best buddies, it would be […]
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By Mark Gray, on June 6th, 2013 [youtube_video] http://youtu.be/TAgP8zfjaEY [/youtube_video]
Video courtesy of Spacecraft Films
On June 6, 1966, the Gemini IX-A crew returned to Earth under the parachutes of their Gemini spacecraft; thus drawing to a close one of the most complex and dangerous missions in human space flight history. The mission had already lost its prime crew in […]
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By Mark Gray, on June 3rd, 2013 [youtube_video]http://youtu.be/mOdcUwlWBDc[/youtube_video]
Video courtesy of Spacecraft Films
On June 3, 1966, the Gemini IX-A crew thundered into orbit—and the history books—atop their Titan launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It would become one of the most complex and dangerous missions in human space flight history. The mission had already […]
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