From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...

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Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program.

On March 24, 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into space. The mission was known as the Mercury Redstone Booster ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...

From the days of the Mercury space program, the means of evacuating astronauts from a burning or otherwise compromised rocket vexed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known just ...

The crucial and groundbreaking Gemini missions came after the swaggering heroics of the Mercury flights, immortalized in book ...