Gemini program
NASA's twin astronauts
The Gemini program was NASA's second human spaceflight program, bridging Mercury and Apollo from 1965 to 1966.
Its ten crewed missions developed techniques essential for reaching the Moon—spacewalks, orbital rendezvous, docking, and extended spaceflight.
The Gemini program proved astronauts could work outside their spacecraft.
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US moonshot initiative
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First US crewed spaceflight initiative
Apollo program · Project Mercury · International Space Station
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