The Gemini space flight program is all but forgotten, having been eclipsed by the spectacular drama and success of the Apollo flights to the Moon.
Initially called the Mercury Mark II, it gave the United States the tool it needed to learn how to f.
But whereas Mercury was derided as \'spam-in-a-can\' and Apollo was a truck towing a lunar lander, the Gemini Spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots.
Neither was it a pioneer, coming after the heroic and pathfinding Mercury project.
The Gemini space flight program is all but forgotten, having been eclipsed by the spectacular drama and success of the Apollo flights to the Moon