Six decades ago today, aboard the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, Wally Schirra lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida's Launch Complex 14 at 12:15 p.m., Carried by an Atlas LV-3B booster vehicle.

Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

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 ...

New book of rare NASA Mercury Project photos gives candid glimpse into the earliest days of America’s space program.

In 1963, Gordon Cooper piloted the longest and last Mercury spaceflight: Mercury-Atlas 9. While Cooper was up in space, on a 34-hour mission, he became the first American to spend an entire day in ...

Much like the Mercury 7, men selected to fly the first American crewed missions for NASA's Project Mercury, the 13 also endured the rigors of astronaut training at sites across the country.