Watch the launch and booster separation of Gemini spacecraft as it is lifted off the ground by a Titan II rocket
This video shows the liftoff of a Gemini spacecraft atop a two-stage Titan II launch vehicle, followed by separation of the rocket stages and a view of a Gemini spacecraft in orbit. Twelve Gemini missions conducted in the mid-1960s provided NASA engineers and astronauts with information about spacecraft maneuvering, rendezvous, and docking and about the long-duration performance of humans in space, in preparation for the Apollo voyages to the Moon.
NASA
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.These snakes mean business.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.A mongoose (Herpestes species) attacking an Asian cobra (Naja naja).
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.All wild axolotls live in the same small lake, and some of the qualities of this unique ecological context have allowed them to remain in their juvenile stage throughout their lives.Media Editor: Lee Goldstein
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Erik Gregersen, astronomy and space exploration editor of Encyclopædia Britannica, picking his top five milestones in space exploration.
-
NASA/ReutersArtemis II astronauts named a new crater after their commander's late wife.
-
NASALiftoff and flight to the Moon of Apollo 11 with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins. After landing at Tranquility Bay, Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon.
-
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.History of the American human spaceflight program in the 1960s.
