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 ...

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 ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

NASA introduced its first group of astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, to the nation and the world. The event took place in the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House on Lafayette Square in Washington, ...

Anita Mitchell, the wife of late NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell who was ... Cooper, a seasoned NASA pilot who took part in the Mercury and Gemini programs, had thousands of hours logged in jet ...