What started as a commemoration of the Mercury Seven astronauts has grown significantly. Marsha Ivins, who flew on five space shuttle missions and also spent time on the former Russian space ...

Other Mercury astronauts had to endure bite-sized cubes, freezedried powders, and semiliquids stuffed in aluminum tubes. Most agreed the foods were unappetizing and disliked squeezing the tubes.

The Project Mercury Monument located at the Cape Canaveral launch pad from where NASA astronauts first flew into Earth orbit ...

The Project Mercury Monument located at the Cape Canaveral launch pad from where NASA astronauts first flew into Earth orbit was dedicated on Nov. 10, 1964 "to the thousands of men and women of ...