NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights.

Project Mercury was NASA’s very first human spaceflight program which operated from 1958 to 1963, having a total of 26—six crewed and 20 uncrewed—flights to space. While we lost the race to space when ...

The Project Mercury Monument located at the Cape Canaveral launch pad from where NASA astronauts first flew into Earth orbit was dedicated on Nov. 10, 1964 "to the thousands of men and women of ...

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 ...

“Project Mercury officially ended on June 12, 1963, when NASA administrator James Webb told Congress that the agency would proceed with the two-man Gemini program,” Bisney and Pickering write.

Brevard's population skyrocketed 371% during the 1950s with Cape Canaveral missile testing, NASA and Project Mercury, ...

NASA's First Chimp in Space. As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature.