OTD In Space - November 11: Gemini 12 Launches Buzz Aldrin And Jim Lovell Into Orbit
On November 11, 1966, the Gemini 12 mission launched. Gemini 12 was the last mission of the Gemini program. It had two ...
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USS Wasp CV-18: The Aircraft Carrier That Battled Kamikazes and Saved Astronauts
In December of that same year, the carrier recovered the astronauts of Gemini VI-A, Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford, and its sister craft, Gemini VII, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell—the ...