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On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a common childhood ... "Check and see if I can get out quickly and relieve myself." Exiting his Mercury capsule was a time-consuming activity, so it was not an ...

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 ...

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.

Credit: AP/Bill Ingalls 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 ...