Anita Mitchell, the widow of late NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, has opened up about her experiences as the wife of an Apollo ...

On Mercury, the astronaut was along for the ride ... who was a Navy test pilot before he flew Gemini and Apollo missions. "As a young aviator I'd done my fair share of air-to-air refueling ...

The Mercury missions showed that astronauts could live ... this day gives enough credit to the Gemini program. It proved every single thing we had to do in Apollo. You know, long duration ...

October 11-12: After extensive redesign work, Apollo 7, commanded by Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions) enters earth orbit in the first test of the ...

Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee would likely have gone to the moon. Mixed with their sorrow was another reaction: disbelief. Before each piloted Mercury and Gemini ...

In between Mercury and Apollo was NASA’s middle child, Project Gemini. Underappreciated at ... the cockpit was a critical instrument for the astronauts. It had to show the distance accurately ...

Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left), Edward ... is a space capsule similar to the spacecraft of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, as well as Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.

it’s no wonder that we’re steadily losing the men who rode the rockets of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs into space. They were all very much in their primes at the time, but no ...

The wife of a former Apollo astronaut has revealed some of ... "I remember Gordy [Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.] telling us at a dinner party in our house that he had seen ...