Gemini

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Watch the launch and booster separation of Gemini spacecraft as it is lifted off the ground by a Titan II rocket

Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. Grissom inside their Gemini 3 spacecraft awaiting blastoff from Cape Kennedy on March 23, 1965. They successfully orbited the Earth three times in the first U.S. two-man spaceflight.

Ed White: space walk

Buzz Aldrin performing an extravehicular activity

Gemini 12 spacecraft lifting off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Nov. 11, 1966.

Charles Conrad, Jr., 1969

Gemini 7, as seen from Gemini 6, 1965

Thomas Stafford

Neil Armstrong, 1969

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Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (center), command pilot, and David R. Scott (right), pilot of the Gemini-8 prime crew, are suited up for water egress training aboard the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico. At left is Dr. Kenneth N. Beers, M.D., Flight Medicine Branch, Center Medical Office. Training for Gemini 8, Gemini-titan-8. January 15, 1966

How Gemini 8 Made History and Avoided Disaster

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Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69

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Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad stands beside the U.S. flag after is was unfurled on the lunar surface during the first extravehicular activity (EVA-1) Nov. 19, 1969. Footprints made by the crew can be seen in the photograph.

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Timeline of the Apollo Space Missions

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Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. Grissom inside their Gemini 3 spacecraft awaiting blastoff from Cape Kennedy on March 23, 1965. They successfully orbited the Earth three times in the first U.S. two-man spaceflight.

Ed White: space walk

Buzz Aldrin performing an extravehicular activity

Gemini 12 spacecraft lifting off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Nov. 11, 1966.

Charles Conrad, Jr., 1969

Gemini 7, as seen from Gemini 6, 1965

Thomas Stafford

Neil Armstrong, 1969

Gemini 10 blastoff from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on July 18, 1966. The image is the result of the combination of 10 exposures.

Watch the launch and booster separation of Gemini spacecraft as it is lifted off the ground by a Titan II rocket

Witness the first extravehicular activity in space: a space walk performed by astronaut Edward White on the Gemini 4 mission

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Key People

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong

American astronaut

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

American astronaut

John W. Young

John W. Young

American astronaut

Michael Collins

Michael Collins

American astronaut

Eugene Cernan

Eugene Cernan

American astronaut

David Scott

David Scott

American astronaut

James A. Lovell, Jr.

Jim Lovell

American astronaut

Pete Conrad

American astronaut

Gordon Cooper

Gordon Cooper

American astronaut

Thomas Stafford

Thomas Stafford

American astronaut

Frank Borman

Frank Borman

American astronaut

Edward H. White II, 1964.

Edward H. White II

American astronaut

Max Faget

Max Faget

American engineer

Richard F. Gordon, Jr.

Richard F. Gordon, Jr.

American astronaut

Wally Schirra

Wally Schirra

American astronaut

James McDivitt

James McDivitt

American astronaut

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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.

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Edwin E. Aldrin (Buzz Aldrin) stands on the moon, Apollo 11

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