But the closest NASA came to losing astronauts during the race to the Moon was a little-known incident in 1966, during the Gemini missions. Specifically, Gemini 8, whose 50th anniversary has just ...

NASA confirmed in a report that Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost died during a spacewalk outside the International ...

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and the Gemini program extended NASA's capabilities by carrying two astronauts per mission. It was designed to test ...