In 1962, Scott Carpenter launched into orbit in Aurora 7! He named his capsule "Aurora", because he viewed his flight as a "celestial event.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Mercury spacecraft 12 was originally ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Two young visitors looking at a model ...

Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.… Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts in 1962, having missed ...

50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

Shortly after 9 AM on May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the second person—and the first American—in space, rocketing to a height of 116.5 miles inside his Mercury capsule. Unlike Soviet ...

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world’s richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International ...

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd flyby of Mercury for the spacecraft. The music used in the video "was composed ...