The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is ...
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all military test pilots before they were chosen for the job, and ...
A year on Mercury lasts 88 Earth days, with a solar day (the time from noon to noon on the planet’s surface) lasting 176 ...
On April 9, 1959, these seven astronauts became our heroes. It turned out they had the "right stuff." ...
Forget Pluto, a hidden Mickey Mouse lives on Mercury. A NASA spacecraft has captured a spectacular photo of Mercury craters arranged in a shape that looks just like Disney's iconic cartoon mouse. The ...
NASA and the USGS created a topographic map of the closest planet to the sun. It's a view of Mercury that no one has ever seen before. They did it by using more than 100,000 pictures taken from NASA's ...
Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...
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NM’s Space Hall of Fame inducting new members
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The International Space Hall of Fame is inducting five new nominees into the Alamogordo facility. The ...
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