The capsule, which contained items from 1979 as well as 2000, was presented for all to see on the same night the students' art and music prowess was put on display. Subscribe to continue reading this ...

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

NASA's MESSENGER mission came to an end when the spacecraft intentionally crashed into the surface of Mercury. MESSENGER was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury and the second spacecraft to study it ...

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

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

For example, while NASA's Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to conduct a detailed study of Mercury in 1975, it would be another 23 years before another spacecraft was proposed to travel to the ...

Owner Lisa Ranieri opened The Style Capsule’s bricks-and-mortar store in 2021, selling women’s clothing she designed under ...

An out-of-control Soviet spacecraft is set to crash into the Earth on Sunday morning - and it could hit the UK. Scientists ...

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 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 ...

Shortly after 9 AM on May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the second person—and the first American—in space, rocketing to a height of 116.5 miles inside his Mercury capsule.