Project Mercury was NASA’s very first human spaceflight program which operated from 1958 to 1963, having a total of 26—six crewed and 20 uncrewed—flights to space. While we lost the race to space when ...

The original Mercury space capsule had no window, a hatch with 70 bolts that had to be removed from outside, and zilch for the astronaut to do except endure g-forces, hope nothing went wrong, and ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...

Related: Project Mercury: America's 1st crewed space program 500 years. Encased in the monument's concrete base is a time capsule containing technical reports, photos, recordings and other ...

A NASA Project Mercury spacecraft was launched on April 25, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a test designed to qualify the spacecraft and all systems, which must function during orbit and ...

“Project Mercury officially ended on June 12, 1963, when NASA administrator James Webb told Congress that the agency would proceed with the two-man Gemini program,” Bisney and Pickering write.

Glossary *1) BepiColombo International Mercury Exploration Project. Comprehensive exploration project for Mercury using two spacecraft probes (Mio and MPO) by Japan-Europe cooperation.

This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018. ... to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on the U.S. space ...