The capsule, developed with the help of government contracts, is an important part of keeping the space station running.

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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