Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

Never-before-seen photographs have been released showing NASA astronauts testing the limits of human endurance and technology needed to get humans to the moon and back. The restored photos from the ...

On 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The mission was part of NASA’s Mercury human spaceflight programme and came just nine months after Soviet ...

NASA selects 10 new astronauts from among 8,000 applicants and begins training that will take them into orbit, to the Moon, ...