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Gemini: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: IBM - Project Gemini. Sep 11, 2026
Add new Web site: Manned Spaceflight Operations Association - Gemini. Mar 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Bullock Museum - Innovations from Project Gemini. Dec 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Engineering and Operational Approaches for Projects Gemini and Apollo. Oct 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Space.com - Gemini Program: Two-Man Prep for Moon Missions. Jun 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - What was the Gemini Program? Nov 23, 2023
Add new Web site: U.S. Centennial of Flight - Project Gemini. Sep 26, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC Future - Gemini: The spacecraft that paved the way to the Moon. Aug 01, 2023
Add new Web site: NASA - Project Gemini. Jan 23, 2023
Table listing spaceflights in Gemini program added. Jul 21, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How The Gemini Spacecraft Worked. Feb 12, 2009
Media added. Oct 16, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jan 12, 2000
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