The capsule that launched the first American into space more than 50 years ago will soon be moved from Maryland to Massachusetts, before ultimately landing in Washington, D.C. in 2016. Freedom 7 ...

Mercury capsule completes space race trifecta at Cradle of Aviation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An early American ...

In between, nothing on the Mercury capsule would allow him to perform the simplest of pilot acts: alter his flight path. Sure, he could turn, pitch, and roll this way and that. He could see where ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe.

In the case of the Mercury space capsule, however, the patent came closer to the end. Project Mercury was conceived as a NASA programme to put the first American astronauts in space. Named after a ...

“We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of Mercury.” Sequence of 89 images ...

By Katrina Miller On Thursday, a spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and Japan made its closest approach yet to Mercury, sending back sharp, black-and-white images of the planet’s ...