NASA Gemini 1965-1966 (All Missions, All Models): An Insight Into Nasa's Gemini Spacecraft, the Precursor to Apollo and the Key to the Moon

by David Woods

The Gemini space flight program is all but forgotten, having been eclipsed by the spectacular drama and success of the Apollo flights to the Moon. Neither was it a pioneer, coming after the heroic and pathfinding Mercury project. But whereas Mercury was derided as 'spam-in-a-can' and Apollo was a truck towing a lunar lander, the Gemini spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots. Initially called the Mercury Mark II, it gave the United...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857334212
• ISBN13: 9780857334213
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 11.0"