PART 1
Program pioneered technology driving today’s exploration BY BOB GRANATH
Project Gemini is often referred to as the “bridge to the moon.” It spanned the period between Project Mercury, America’s first efforts
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to determine if humans could survive in space, and the Apollo lunar landing flights. Looking back across a half-century, Gemini proved to be a bridge to the future. NASA’s two-man spaceflights demonstrated that astronauts could change their capsule’s orbit, remain in space for at least two weeks and work