Name a better spaceship

Yuri's BOCTOK is /effay/

OP said rockets, not memes

Admittedly, that was an issue. But as the guy who always comes in here to post about making the rocket safer instead of worrying about escape systems always said it's better to make the rocket safe than worrying about escape systems. Gemini had a perfect safety record at launch, and the ejector seats were never used.

Yuri was a hero, and Vostok was an achievement, but it was not really much of a spacecraft. All it could do was rotate on three axes and then re-enter.

The first is not really going to be the best. All props to Korolev, and Gagarin, of course, for doing it at all.

BIG

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>people were brave into to travel to the moon in a tin can
It's almost inhuman to think about

Lmao I can see how fake it is withought even clicking on the thumbnail

Gemini guys proposed sending a Gemini mission to circumnavigate the moon, when it became clear that Apollo was delayed and fears of the Russians getting a first there arose.

Gemini could have done it, it had demonstrated the ability to keep a crew alive, though cramped as fuck, for as long as the longest projected lunar landing missions, I flyby would have been a piece of cake.

31 engines.

Are they, and I ask this in all seriousness, insane?

I highly doubt the gemini capsule had a heat shield that could handle aerobraking from a lunar free return trajectory