First Project Mercury space capsule is completed at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. St Louis, Missouri, and was ready to be delivered to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallop's station ...

Using colorized topography, Mercury's 'great valley ... high-resolution digital elevation model merged with an image mosaic obtained by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Shepard was aboard the Mercury spacecraft, which launched him to suborbital heights on May 5, 1961. At the time, the U.S. was just getting into the space race after Russia had already beat them to ...

although he continued to contribute to the space program until 1975, when he finally flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The Mercury capsule, a technological marvel that measured just 12.33 cubic ...

By Sarah Knapton 29 April 2015 • 6:23pm Nasa's Messenger craft is the first to orbit Mercury Credit: Photo: Nasa Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft which has orbited Mercury since 2011 will crash ...