What Was NASA’s Second Human Spaceflight Program and How Many Manned Gemini Missions Were There?
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, and consisted of 10 manned flights between 1965 and 1966. The American Gemini spacecraft were the first to carry two people into space. NASA used the Gemini program to develop techniques for advanced space travel, and to prepare for the Apollo missions, whose objective