It's been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S. space program today?

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

The innermost planet of our solar system, Mercury, is barely wider than the continental United States, and is often seen as a ...

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 ...

Naccarato was enraptured. He watched rocket launches on television, along with “Star Trek” and “Battlestar Galactica.” He ...

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in ...

The Mercury capsule, a technological marvel that measured just 12.33 cubic meters, was designed to accommodate a single astronaut. Despite its small size, it had 120 switches, 55 electrical ...

First Project Mercury space capsule is completed at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. St Louis, Missouri, and was ready to be delivered to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallop's station ...

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 ...

"CBS Mornings" Gayle King and the rest of Blue Origin's historic all-women spaceflight crew blasted off on Monday.