On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA ...

On this day in aviation history, 61 years ago (March 23, 1965), Gemini III was launched into space. Gemini III was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini program. This program allowed NASA ...

Parades, celebratory banquets and question and answer sessions with local students awaited space explorers who visited the city.

San Antonio’s Eileen Collins, the subject of the new documentary Spacewoman, was in fourth grade when she read a Junior Scholastic magazine article about astronauts in the U.S. Gemini space program.