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 Academy Award-winning space exploration movie starring Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid has a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.