Before Glennan returned to Cleveland in 1961, the space agency had launched more than a dozen missions, selected the Project Mercury astronauts and laid the groundwork for the Apollo missions. But ...

Plain old white. That basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, featured silver suits ...

starting with Project Mercury and continuing until the present. With these and other spacecraft in the pipeline, countless dreams of zero-gravity somersaults could soon become a reality—at least ...

December 7, 2016 - Ohio State University spokesman Hank Wilson says Glenn was hospitalized “more than a week ago,” but does not have any information about his condition. December 8, 2016 - Dies at The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff.

The astronaut selection ... the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. He had missed out on two Mercury missions — the first being MR-6, canceled after Gus Grissom's near-disastrous MR-4 mission, and ...