A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the contents of its time capsule not to be opened until 2464? The Project Mercury ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- One of the 20 space capsules created for the United States' first human space flight has been installed at the McDonnell Planetarium in St. Louis. The Mercury capsules were ...

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Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...

As the seven U.S. Project Mercury astronauts watched from a Cape Canaveral bunker, an Atlas roared off into the rain-soaked skies carrying the first spaceborne production model of the Mercury capsule.

Click to open image viewer. Shown here is a retro rocket used to decelerate manned spacecraft in orbit in preparation for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere during NASA's Project Mercury in the ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...