However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Astronaut Elliott M. See Jr., pilot of the T-38 jet when it crashed near Lambert St. Louis International Airport on Feb. 28, 1966 ...

Gemini 12 was the last mission of the Gemini program. It had two astronauts on board: Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin. NASA wanted to send humans to the moon. But first, it needed to make sure crews had ...

A commercial space crew has flown higher above Earth than anyone who has traveled since the last Apollo astronauts went to the moon. SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience, flying the Polaris Dawn astronaut ...

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Astronaut Ed White as he floats in zero gravity of space over Gulf of Mexico, Gemini IV , June, 1965; Astronaut Richard F. Gordon returning to hatch after extravehicular activity. Gemini XI, Sept.

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