A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the contents of its time capsule not to be opened until 2464? The Project Mercury ...

This series will explore historic space missions from the start of the Space Age to the present day, including both crewed and robotic missions. Here we will investigate the scientific rationale ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — A gathering of legends was held on Thursday as members of Project Mercury their families came together for a special reunion. There were lots of memories shared at ...

Alan Shepard and John Glenn in the Mercury suit room. On the cusp of human space flight truly becoming commonplace in which hundreds even thousands of ordinary citizens will get to view our planet ...

This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...