during the Gemini missions. Specifically, Gemini 8, whose 50th anniversary has just passed. In fact, if it weren’t for the extremely quick thinking of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong ...

Jun 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2022 The Gemini 8 mission launched March 16, 1966, with Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott. While in orbit, Armstrong and Scott achieved the first ...

Television newsman Walter Cronkite remembered the mission: "Gemini 8 began to tumble and they were working frantically in the spacecraft of course, but also on Earth to try to figure out how to ...

Shortly after this feat, Gemini 8 experiences a stuck thruster, causing the craft to tumble wildly, and the rest of the mission is aborted. Following reports of Gemini 8's problems, the Soviet ...