The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame held its annual induction ceremony on Saturday (May 31), but one of this year's two honorees ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

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 ...

"I remember Gordy [Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.] telling us at a dinner party in our house that he had seen something,' Mrs Mitchell disclosed to the Daily Mail. She added ...

Working in condensed matter physics, University of Virginia Astronaut Scholar Ishaan Patel sees a future in research.

His spacecraft, Freedom 7, was a tribute to the seven Project Mercury astronauts, and to one of our Nation's founding principles: freedom. " Related Spacecraft launched by Soviet Union in 1972 is ...

The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American ...

In the 1960s, a group of 13 candidates endured unofficial astronaut training with the hope of being chosen for one of the new missions to Earth orbit and the moon. But at the time, they simply ...

Shepard Jr. answered that question after beating out his six colleagues who made up the remainder of the original seven Mercury astronauts. In the Navy, Shepard had served in a squadron of F2H-3 ...

Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle flight in 1998. But he’d been gone from NASA for decades and was close to wrapping up his Senate career.