Project Gemini Videos

Michael Collins shares insights into the NASA's project known as Project Gemini (although you'll learn why Collins felt it should have been known as Project Janus) and stories of his Gemini X mission with astronaut John Young. This wonderful interview was captured at the Cosmosphere as part of its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Gemini X mission.

Jerry Bostick worked as a flight controller for NASA during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle space programs. In this video, Jerry shares his advice for leaders and young learners.

In the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were attempting to design rockets which could launch a nuclear warhead across the globe. Research from these nose cones led to the heat shields that would later be used on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft.

Cosmosphere Curator Shannon Whetzel discusses the EVAs (spacewalks) NASA's astronauts took during the Gemini program during the Space Race.