Space: The Final Frontier - A to Z

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Gemini

Hercules - Hercules is a constellation named after Hercules, the Roman mythological hero adapted from the Greek hero Heracles.
Hercules was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. It is the fifth largest of the modern constellations.

Interamnia (asteroid #704).

Janus - Janus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is also known as Saturn X (Roman numeral X = 10). It is named after the mythological Janus.

K-type stars.

Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager - The Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager (LEGRI) was a payload for the first mission of the Spanish MINISAT (MINIature SATellite) platform, and active from 1997 to 2002.

Moon landing

Norma - Norma is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere between Scorpius and Centaurus, one of twelve drawn up in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. Its name is Latin for normal, referring to a right angle, and is variously considered to represent a ruler, a carpenter's square, a set square or a spirit level.

Orion

Pinwheel Galaxy (M101).

Quaoar - Small Kuiper Belt object, potential Dwarf planet.

Russian Space Program

Sabatier - Sabatier is a small lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon, at the southwestern fringes of the Mare Marginis.

Thomas P. Stafford

Ulysses spacecraft

Vaisala - Vaisala is a tiny crater located on a rise in the Oceanus Procellarum.