Morehead Planetarium Director Tony Jenzano (left) stands with technician Jim Gaites (middle) and technician John T Brittain (right) in front of the astronaut training structures ... built for training ...

Of the original seven Mercury astronauts, only two besides Cooper remain as active participants: Virgil Grissom will command the first of the Gemini flights, and Walter Schirra Jr. will lead the ...

It was a tall order. The Mercury missions showed that astronauts could live in space for up to a full day. And the Gemini missions built on this experience to make spectacular progress.

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When Borman and Lovell were crewmates on the two-week orbital mission of Gemini 7, the time dilation effect was dominant for the entire period; the two astronauts thus aged less than those on ...