A SPACE ODYSSEY

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photographs have been released showing NASA astronauts testing the limits of human endurance and technology needed to get humans to the moon and back.

- BY BEN BARRY

The restored photos from the archives have been released to mark the 60th anniversary of Gemini V - one of the missions from Project Gemini that came before Project Apollo, which put the first people on the moon.

Project Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight programme, testing to see if humans could travel into orbit, between 1961 to 1963.