Though Mission Control worried that if there ... the extremely quick thinking of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8’s crew would have been killed. The Gemini program was ...

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon ... He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first ...

Armstrong was backup command pilot for the Gemini 11 mission (for which he stayed on ... Ohio – Astronaut Neil Armstrong returned home Wednesday, and the residents of this small Ohio community ...

Gemini 8 was in trouble. After completing the first space docking with another craft, it begins to spin uncontrollably. Ditching protocol, commanding officer Neil Armstrong tries an unorthodox plan.

In 1966, Armstrong took his first flight into space as the command pilot of Gemini 8. The mission was supposed to last three days. But less than 30 minutes after docking with another vehicle and ...