On June 11, 1963, the Mercury space capsule was patented and assigned to NASA. The patent was received less than a month after the last flight of Project Mercury had been carried out. A.S.Ganesh ...

The original Mercury space capsule had no window, a hatch with 70 bolts that had to be removed from outside, and zilch for the astronaut to do except endure g-forces, hope nothing went wrong, and ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Once believed to be lost to history, two spacecraft shingles bearing the "nose art" from a pair of early NASA astronaut capsules have sold at auction for almost half a million dollars.

A structural problem in the attachment of the capsule to its Atlas rocket triggered an explosion that destroyed both capsule and rocket. Four months later, the next attempt at sending Mercury into ...

Mercury could have a thick underground layer of diamonds, scientists say. Some of the stones may have found their way to the surface, according to a recent study.

Flying the Gusmobile It didn’t look remotely like a fighter plane. So why did astronauts who flew the Gemini spacecraft compare it to one?

This ’39 Mercury has all kinds of original details, most notably the engine and transmission. The current owner said the car was purchased by his grandfather around 1969 from the estate of the ...