As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? (02:31 ...

Taking the good with the bad regarding space exploration, NASA has achieved many accomplishments since it was established. Project Mercury was its first program to send astronauts into space to ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury ...

Scientists are racing to restore Clear Lake, California's largest freshwater lake, which has been struggling with algal ...

a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew ...

ForbesRevealed: NASA's 'Night Mission' To Mercury, The Only Inner Planet We've Yet To Land OnBy Jamie Carter NASA’s Mariner 10 probe imaged Mercury from 1974-75 while NASA’s MESSENGER mission ...

While manned missions have been limited, NASA has successfully sent probes and missions to every planet, including Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter, and even Pluto. These missions have provided valuable ...