Bellcomm, Inc Technical Library Collection, Accession XXXX-0093, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. In 1958, Project Mercury was selected as the first American manned space ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the Mercury Seven, its first astronauts, marking the dawn of America’s human spaceflight program. Chosen from hundreds of military test pilots, these men became ...

Astronaut Scott Carpenter had an adventuresome spirit and was driven to know everything he could about the universe, fellow space pioneer John Glenn said Saturday at Carpenter’s funeral. “Scott’s ...