Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster
On March 16, 1966, the Gemini Vlll astronauts faced the first life-threatening, in-flight emergency in the short history of the U.S. human spaceflight program.
Michael J. Neufeld is curator for rockets and missiles in the National Air and Space Museum’s Space History Department, and is the author of The Rocket and the Reich (1995) and Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (2007), among other works.
On March 16, 1966, the Gemini Vlll astronauts faced the first life-threatening, in-flight emergency in the short history of the U.S. human spaceflight program.
Michael J. NeufeldCurator Michael Neufeld discusses how Nazi Germany's high-tech weapons were assembled in part by forced and slave labor from the various Nazi camp systems.
Michael J. Neufeld