CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Project Mercury was the United States' first human spaceflight program. Delmas D. "Del" Burchfield (1926-2016) was an engineer at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation who in 1959 was put in charge of the ...

The International Space Hall of Fame is inducting five new nominees into the Alamogordo facility. The nominees were chosen from a field of 45 outstanding candidates, whose

Space missions can succeed or fail from the support they get from mission control. Here, we look at the changing shape of Nasa's most important room in space.

From Moon missions to an expedition to Mercury, 2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year for space. The first part of the year will see four astronauts orbit the Moon for the first time since the Apollo missions of the late 1960s. The goal is to start ...

On 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The mission

HOUSTON — Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts were toasted by Canada on Saturday as they prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet was on the blink again.

The four astronauts beat a previous record of 248,655 miles set in 1970, as they travel on a looping path around the far side of the Moon.