The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building ( OCB ), to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles.

* 1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.

To support this, and other Apollo objectives, the Gemini program was spun off to develop the capability for astronauts to work outside a two-man Earth orbiting spacecraft.

The next EVA was planned to be made by David Scott on Gemini 8, but that mission had to be aborted due to a critical spacecraft malfunction before the EVA could be conducted.

Astronauts on the next three Gemini flights ( Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins and Richard Gordon ), performed several EVAs, but none was able to successfully work for long periods outside the spacecraft without tiring and overheating.

The Airlock Module's manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, even recycled the hatch design from its Gemini spacecraft and kludged what was originally designed for the conical Gemini Command Module onto the cylindrical Skylab Airlock Module.

However, for many reasons, fuel cells were not well-developed until the advent of manned spaceflight ( such as the Gemini Program in the U. S .) when lightweight, non-thermal ( and therefore efficient ) sources of electricity were required in spacecraft.

The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

** Gemini 1 is launched, the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.

* January 19 – The unmanned Gemini 2 is launched on a suborbital test of various spacecraft systems.

Grissom was one of the smaller astronauts, and he worked very closely with the engineers and technicians from McDonnell Aircraft who built the Gemini spacecraft.

During this time Grissom invented the multi-axis translation thruster controller used to push the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft in linear directions for rendezvous and docking.

In a joking nod to the sinking of his Mercury craft Grissom named the first Gemini spacecraft Molly Brown after the popular Broadway show The Unsinkable Molly Brown ; NASA publicity officials were unhappy with this name.

After the safe return of Gemini III, NASA announced new spacecraft would not be named.

Grissom died while putting the finishing touches on Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space ; he had been heavily involved in the engineering of the spacecraft.

The mission, which the men named Apollo 1 in June, was originally planned for late 1966 ( perhaps concurrent with the last Gemini mission ), but delays in the spacecraft development pushed the launch into 1967.

Other American manned spacecraft include the Gemini Spacecraft, Apollo Spacecraft, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle with undetached European Spacelab and private US Spacehab space stations-modules.

For the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft, such communications blackouts lasted for several minutes.

Building 101 was where the Gemini spacecraft was built, and they were going there to train for two weeks in a simulator.

All later Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules had a flotation collar ( similar to a rubber life raft ) attached to the spacecraft to increase their buoyancy.

His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs.

Like its predecessor the Atlas ICBM, the Titan II GLV a derivative of that missile was used to launch Project Gemini spacecraft and the Titan 23G was used as a space booster to launch satellites.

Conrad preparing for water egress training in the Gemini Static Article 5 spacecraft.

After the first-generation spacecraft Vostok and Mercury had proved the technical feasibility of manned spaceflight, NASA proceeded to build its second-generation capsule, Gemini, which was a completely new design which retained the successful features of Mercury such as the conical shape with a heat shield at the bottom while adding several new features for example engines strong enough to significantly alter orbit, docking and rendezvous facilities, and provisions for EVA, all of which were essential for practical applications of spaceflight, namely a manned Moon mission.

He retrieved a cosmic dust-collecting panel from the side of the Agena, but returned no pictures of his close encounter ; in the complicated business of keeping his tether clear of the Gemini and Agena, Collins ' Hasselblad camera worked itself free and drifted off into orbit.

However, during the launch of the Gemini 9 Agena on May 17, 1966, its Atlas booster malfunctioned ( rather than the Agena itself, as had previously caused Gemini 6 to be recast as Gemini 6A ), and it failed to make it to orbit.

In Australia, GM's Holden operation sold the 1975-84 Isuzu Bellett / Gemini, itself a license built version of the then current Opel Kadett, as the Holden Gemini.

The show itself was twice nominated for a Gemini Award in the category " Best Children's or Youth Program or Series " in 1998 and eventually won it in 1999.

The series was popular and won Del Grande four Gemini Awards, two for best actor in a comedy and two for the show itself.

In 2009, D & B, which itself was going through the process of being sold from one venture capital firm to another, sold the rights to the name to Gemini Investors.

The staircase itself differs from other modern buses as rather than simply having a banister, the Gemini features a glass panel underneath the handrail, giving a stylish appearance.

Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).

Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

Coleco was also able to design and market the Gemini game system which was an exact clone of the 2600, but with combined joystick / paddle controllers.

Each cartridge includes a customized MOS Technology MPS-7600 chip ( one of these chips was the 004 used by the Gemini ).

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

The Soviets were able to launch two Voskhod capsules before the first manned Gemini was launched.

By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA.

The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965 by Edward H. White, II from the second manned Gemini flight, Gemini 4, for 21 minutes, on a tether.

Such a self-contained spacewalk was first attempted by Eugene Cernan in 1966 on Gemini 9A, but Cernan could not reach the maneuvering unit without tiring.

Gemini 10 ( officially Gemini X ) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.

It was the 8th manned Gemini flight, the 16th manned American flight and the 24th spaceflight of all time ( includes X-15 flights over ).

Gemini established that radiation at high altitude was not a problem.

Gemini 10 was designed to achieve the objectives planned for the last two missions — rendezvous, docking and EVA.

As well as this it was also hoped to dock with the Agena Target Vehicle from the Gemini 8 mission.

In 1975, Holden introduced the compact Gemini, the Australian version of the " T-car ", based on the Opel Kadett C. The Gemini was an overseas design developed jointly with Isuzu, GM's Japanese affiliate ; and was powered by a 1. 6-litre four-cylinder engine.