On, NASA marked a major milestone in America’s early space program with the first successful launch of a Mercury-Atlas rocket. [...] ...

When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was also ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk -- who trained for NASA's Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space -- finally got her time amongst the stars ...

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 ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...