Then will come the training program itself—”flights ... comes—perhaps three or four years hence—the first space-bound Mercury Astronaut will be named. The others will be expected ...

Indeed, Mercury was far from impossible to glimpse during elongations as favorable as the upcoming one. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

NASA wasn’t so dependent on private companies when it conceived Project Mercury, the country’s first human spaceflight program. Given the pressures of the space race against the Soviet Union ...

Japan's Mio space probe now en route to Mercury to study its origin and evolution took advantage of Earth's gravity for a swing by to take a farewell photo of home. Photos showing it whizzing far ...