James A. McDivitt played a "critical role in landing the first humans on the Moon," according to NASA Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965's ...

In the first generation of America’s explorers in space, James McDivitt was neither the best known nor the most accomplished among his fellow astronauts. He compiled few personal firsts in his years ...