Suits became more technologically sophisticated as Gemini astronauts started spacewalking and Apollo astronauts went moonwalking.
To overcome that challenge, they used an Xbox 360 game controller to direct Gemini-Scout.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
To ensure functionality in flooded tunnels, Gemini-Scout's controls and equipment needed to be waterproof.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Benoit Neichel, who leads this adaptive optics program for Gemini, said in a statement.
He joined the Astronaut Corps in 1962 and first traveled into space in 1966 on Gemini 8.
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If all goes well, the Gemini-Scout could be ready to head underground by the end of next year.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
When Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets were launched in the 1960s, the country stopped to watch the launch.
Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space when he stepped outside his Gemini 4 spacecraft.
Cap Gemini said 98 percent of large U.S. corporations have Y2K crisis centers.
Sandia robotics engineers have designed the Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot, which finds dangers and can provide relief to trapped miners.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Corning, the American company that is making the Gemini equipment, prefers to give up making the mirror sturdy at all.
In 1965, U.S. spacecraft Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 achieved the first space rendezvous, flying side by side for two orbits.
David Barrett, of Gemini Consulting in London, thinks that, eventually, a solution would be to replace human air-traffic controllers with computers.
Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory, both in Hawaii, took images of three planets orbiting in the far reaches of the system.
In April of 2000, a man named Gemini Wink was hiking through the swamps near Tampa, Florida, looking to take pictures of alligators.
Astronauts will ride in a capsule at the top of the rocket, as they did in the famous Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.
It is not uncommon to see significant brand building initiatives, even innovative marketing from professional services firms such as Accenture or Cap Gemini.
According to research and consulting firm Cap Gemini, companies also plan to put a freeze on implementing new hardware and software until the rollover.
Less than four feet long and two feet tall, Gemini-Scout is nimble enough to navigate around tight corners and over safety hatches a foot high.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
And it follows a profits warning on Tuesday by IT and management consultancy Cap Gemini, which prompted falls among technology stocks on European stock markets.
Designers built the Gemini-Scout to negotiate nearly every known mine hazard.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
Some of the top business and technology services consultancies are joining in: Accenture, CAP Gemini, CGI, Cognizant, Deloitte, IBM, Infosys.
The team is in the final stages of licensing Gemini-Scout to a commercial robotics company, but for now, the Mine Safety and Health Administration will be the primary customer.
ENGADGET: Gemini-Scout robot can scope out mining accidents, may save lives (video)
They flew on two suborbital and four Earth-orbital Mercury launches, nine Earth-orbital Gemini flights, two Earth-orbital Apollo tests, and two lunar-orbital tests that made those lunar surface landings possible.
Thanks to observations made with the Gemini ground-based optical telescope in Hawaii, it quickly became clear that GRB130427A was superbright primarily because it lay only a few billion light years away.
The other pair of telescopes, belonging to the Gemini project (whose member countries are America, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada and Chile), will be a little further apart than that some 9, 800km.
But once the space program commenced at nearby Cape Canaveral, Hudson could catch a glimpse of another world from her front yard as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft lofted into orbit.
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The stock was subject to restrictions, but the partners thought it was better to pay tax that year so increases in the Cap Gemini stock would be long term capital gain.
During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.
Or the Gemini stream could be a remnant of another as yet undetected dwarf galaxy still in the process of being torn asunder by gravitational tidal interactions within our own Milky Way.
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