NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was also the last ...

A U.S. spacecraft beamed hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun. The images show scientists never-before-seen landscapes on ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft was proposed in 1998 and launched in 2004, but didn't enter Mercury orbit until 2011. Therefore, what are the next steps for developing future missions to return samples ...

The attitude hand controller was old news, however; it had been used in Mercury as well as on some Soviet space missions. The significant innovation on Gemini came with the insignificant-looking T ...

The military has provided these services since Project Mercury, the country's ... conducting NASA's crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. SpaceX and Boeing were both awarded ...

As a member of NASA’s original Mercury 7 astronauts in the early days of the Space Race ... Shepard’s Mercury-Redstone 3 mission rocket also was automated, which was a bone of contention ...

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...