55 years ago, #GeminiV launched astronauts Gordon Cooper & Pete Conrad on America’s longest manned spaceflight at that time. […]
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Assigned in November 1965, the Gemini IX crew of Elliot See (left) and Charlie Bassett were tasked with flying a 48-72-hour mission in the late spring of 1966. Their flight would have demonstrated rendezvous, docking, maneuvering, and spacewalking. Photo Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, this month, in February 1966, NASA and America’s effort […] Glorious view of Baja California, with the nose of Gemini V visible at bottom right. Photo Credit: NASA Five decades have now passed since a mission which Pete Conrad once described as “the longest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.” Gemini V was the third manned flight of […] Illustrating the cramped nature of their eight-day home, astronauts Pete Conrad (background) and Gordo Cooper are in jubilant spirits ahead of their 21 August 1965 launch. Photo Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, this week, astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad experienced “the longest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.” Gemini V was […] Chrysler artist Cece Bibby chats with Scott Carpenter, after stencilling the name “Aurora 7” onto his spacecraft. Photo Credit: NASA Yesterday’s tragic passing of Scott Carpenter—one of America’s “Original Seven” Mercury astronauts and the nation’s second man to orbit Earth—following a recent stroke has deprived the world of yet another pioneer from the […] 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 […] The International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF) and the New Mexico Museum of Space History inducted the members of the original Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) team into the ISHF on Saturday, Aug. 17. Photo Credit: McDonnell Douglas The International Space Hall of Fame (ISHF) and the New Mexico Museum of Space History inducted […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-15 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 24 Nov 20 at 2:34 GMT 23 Nov 20 at 9:34pm Eastern 
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