But Project Mercury officials called a postponement ... of the red gantry and then lowering it into place atop the Atlas. The capsule is of the same type that carried U.S. astronauts John H.

The sun is setting on the east coast of Florida as Atlas V stands fueled and waiting ... April 22 (UPI) -- A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station Tuesday morning ...

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 ...

The payload scheduled for the April 9 Atlas V rocket launch will be the ... April 22 (UPI) -- A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station Tuesday morning, loaded with ...

Our eyes are on the spacecraft ... It will be the first time astronauts ride an Atlas since NASA’s Project Mercury, starting with John Glenn when he became the first American to orbit ...

(AP Photo/Andy Wong) Read full article: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures ... will light up the evening sky on Friday, with Mercury joining Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus ...

The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed ... the Air Force’s Atlas ICBM, will get a series of tests, with animals riding the capsules in some flights. After Astronauts and vehicle ...

1961 – Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin. 1961 – Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit. 1962 – US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on moon. 1971 – About 200,000 anti-Vietnam ...

The usual caveats apply to the Capsule Air, in that it's not very bright and its image isn't very accurate. But perhaps that's a high bar for something the size of a Coke can. With Google TV built ...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch 27 Project Kuiper satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today during a two-hour window that opens at 7 p ...

Mercury will also be present close to the eastern ... April 2025 after contributing articles to outlets including IGN, New Atlas and Gizmodo. He has a passion for the night sky, science, Hideo ...