On this day in space! Sept. 14, 1966: NASA's Gemini 11 astronauts set altitude record for Earth orbit that went unbroken for 58 years

On this day in space! Sept. 14, 1966: NASA's Gemini 11 astronauts set altitude record for Earth orbit that went...

It wasn't until 2024 that astronauts orbited the Earth higher than NASA's Gemini 11 crew Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon.