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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buzz Aldrin flew on Gemini 12 and Apollo 11. With Neil Armstrong, he made the first ... The things that we did on that first mission I felt were done to make later missions more successful.