Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

Conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) became the first United States manned orbital spaceflight on February 20, ...

NASA astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra famously wore the second-gen Speedy on the Mercury-Atlas 8: Sigma 7 mission of 1962, earning it the title of “first Omega in Space.” ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters. It's the sixth time the spacecraft — launched in 2018 by the European ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

The Atlas V lifted off from Launch Complex 41, south of Kennedy Space Center, at 6:45 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, carrying a top-secret payload for the U.S. Space Force.

Following a months-long investigation, the mission team concluded that the spacecraft’s electrical thrusters would remain at lower levels, preventing it from entering Mercury’s orbit in 2025.

M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury’s north pole, with the spacecraft about 787 kilometers from the planet’s surface. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM.

Indeed, a key goal of the mission is to investigate whether Mercury holds water in its shadows, despite its close proximity to the Sun. Mercury’s sunlit north as seen by BepiColombo.