After flying Corsairs in WWII, he continued his military career which led him to two combat tours in the Korean War. In the ...

According to the wife of an Apollo astronaut, her husband used to tell her secrets about what he really saw in space. Anita ...

United States Project Mercury," released in 1960, documents the rigorous training of America's first seven astronauts as part ...

Glennan dubbed the 110 men Mercury Astronauts, said that beginning this month they will go to Washington in groups of about 30 for full briefings on Project Mercury. After that, the candidates ...

US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June for what was meant to be an eight-day trip.

then again to the seven well-publicized Mercury astronauts. Last week, with all the nonchalance of Casey Stengel reeling off a pre-game batting order, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth ...

May 5, 1961 – Freedom 7, the first piloted Mercury spacecraft carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., is launched from Cape Canaveral. It is the first American space flight involving human beings.

An upcoming routine SpaceX mission to send a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station bears a little more significance this time around. When a mission known as Crew-10 launches as ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...