ST. LOUIS (AP) -- One of the 20 space capsules created for the United States' first human space flight has been installed at the McDonnell Planetarium in St. Louis. The Mercury capsules were ...

First Project Mercury space capsule is completed at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. St Louis, Missouri, and was ready to be delivered to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallop's station, ...

A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the contents of its time capsule not to be opened until 2464? The Project Mercury ...

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the ...

As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But what happened once Alan Shepard stepped into the space capsule?

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