After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA ...

In between, nothing on the Mercury capsule would allow him to perform ... Launched by its own Atlas rocket 100 minutes prior to the crew's launch via Titan, the Agena was a combination docking ...

Largely because McDonnell farsightedly started designing space capsules long before Washington asked for them, his company won the coveted Mercury contract, a $130 million program. It has turned ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

To commemorate both of these historic flights, the Museum has put on display two 1:3 scale models of the Vostok 3KA and Mercury capsules. “The first time I looked at the models,” says Neufeld ...

Atlas Lens Co. was showing its latest additions to the Mercury 1.5x series at NAB 2025 in Las Vegas. The 24mm T2.2, 27mm T2.2 ...