The Project Mercury Monument located at the Cape Canaveral launch pad from where NASA astronauts first flew ... United States' "pioneering man-in-space program." The primary feature of the ...

The Mercury program got massive attention when America ... no other spacecraft before had been equipped with: a space radar. NASA had planned extensively for the Gemini rendezvous maneuvers ...

After three and a half years in orbit around Mercury --- the tiny shriveled and pockmarked orb that boasts temperatures in excess of 650 degrees --- NASA’s ... be lost to space, at least some ...

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights. To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent ...

NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, featured silver suits, but none of those astronauts actually explored the vacuum of space.

"Our study uses geophysical data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft." MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) launched in Aug. 2004 and became the first ...