When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth's climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar ...

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 ...

A "deeply personal" set of images filmed by NASA astronauts which includes the first ever selfie taken in space has been ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

Before crashing into Mercury's surface, the MESSENGER probe sent a glorious visual archive back to Earth. Here's what the probe taught us about Mercury before it died. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

Shukla also highlighted the historical relevance of the trainer. It was first used during NASA’s Mercury program – the United States’ first human spaceflight project. Although Mercury astronauts never ...

NASA’s MESSENGER – set to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury – launched today at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The ...

Scott Carpenter, one of two remaining astronauts from NASA’s Mercury program and the second American to orbit the earth, died Wednesday at the age of 88. His family did not specify a cause of death, ...