Here are following a series of pictures illutrating the Gemini program. Pictures are sorted according to the chronological order of missions. You will note that their format is not that big as those were the only ones we could download from the NASA site until now
| Here is a cutaway view of a Gemini capsule. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| To lift the heavier Gemini spacecraft, NASA turned to the powerful Titan II rocket. The first Gemini-Titan 'stack' lifts off from Cape Canaveral on April 8, 1964, to begin a successful unmanned test. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| Inside Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a Gemini spacecraft is processed during 1964 for an upcoming spaceflight. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| A view of Florida's Cape Canaveral, the site to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, as seen from the Gemini V capsule in Earth orbit. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| The Gemini VI-A mission performed the 1st US space rendezvous accomplished with the Gemini VII capsule, which had launched 11 days earlier. Here, Gemini VII is seen from the hatch window of Gemini VI. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| The Gemini VIII mission performed the first successful US docking of two spacecraft, between a Gemini capsule and a Agena target vehicle seen here. When a stuck thruster put their capsule into a dangerous spin, the crew used the re-entry rockets to regain control and make a safe emergency landing. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| Gemini IX-A docking didn't go as planned, because a protective shroud on the ATDA docking adapter failed to fully separate. Stafford, one of both crewmembers dubbed the adapter a 'angry alligator.' The mission managed to perform several other rendezvous maneuvers. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| Gemini IX-A also featured a two hour spacewalk by Gene Cernan, the second spacewalk in the US history of space. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| A time exposure photograph showing the Gemini X spacecraft, which launched from Launch Complex 19 in Cape Canaveral on July 18, 1966. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| The Gemini XI mission lifting from Cape Kennedy Air Force station's Launch Complex 19 on Sept. 12, 1966 against a Apollo Saturn V on Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
| The Gemini XII mission and ultimate of the Gemini program to parachute-splash in the Atlantic ocean on Nov. 15, 1966. click to a larger picture. picture courtesy site 'Amateur Astronomy' based upon a picture NASA |
