Water’s my jam.” Dituri did apply to be an astronaut in 2024; he never heard back. Although he meets current qualifications, ...

The film "Astronauts: United States Project Mercury," released in 1960, documents the rigorous training of America's first seven astronauts as part of NASA's Project Mercury. It highlights the ...

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 ...

It’s one reason why the new book, “Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub,” hits home in ways that Are unexpectedly poignant. It shows the ...

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 ...

Crowds lined Main Street, as the seven Project Mercury astronauts appeared together for the first time in Houston. The parade was followed by a "Texas-style" barbecue for MSC employees at the Sam ...

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 ...

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.