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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space in the Mercury MR-3 capsule. This collection consists of two double-sided ...

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 ...

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 ...

What type of impact created Mercury’s giant core and thin crust? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team | Space ...

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BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of ...