Besides Ms Whitson, the crew includes India’s Shubhanshu Shukla, a pilot in the Indian Air Force; Hungary’s Tibor Kapu, a ...

To reach Mars, future astronauts will need to maintain uncommon levels ... doesn’t hire people who do extreme sports with a real chance of death, Slack said. Even for Project Mercury, when the entire ...

The documentary ‘Sally’ revisits the story of the first American woman to go into space and the hurdles she faced back on ...

Scott Carpenter was a faithful participant in the program until his death in 2013. John Glenn, 93, the last of the living Mercury 7 astronauts, participates when he can.

Children: 2 NASA cohort: The Mercury Seven (1959) Known for: A potential candidate for the moon landing that was to come two years after his death, Grissom sadly perished in the Apollo 1 fire.

Former U.S. astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission that paved the way for the first human moon landing nine months later ...

In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight.

It was 6:31 p.m. on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire started in Apollo 1 killing Grissom, 40, one of the seven original Mercury astronauts; White, 36, the first American to walk in space; and Chaffee ...

The latest adaptation of “The Right Stuff” doesn’t need to portray the astronauts as heroes. History has already done that. Instead, the Disney+ version of Tom Wolfe’s 1979 … ...

Bettman/ Getty; John M. Heller/Getty Staton, who you may recognize for his role as Ken Cosgrove on Mad Men, has the honor of playing Schirra, the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and ...

Rene Carpenter, who was expected to conform to the demure, virtuous image of middle-American womanhood in the 1960s as the wife of Mercury 7 astronaut M. Scott Carpenter and later, after their ...

Undergoing the same battery of tests as Nasa ’s original Mercury Seven astronauts, she sat in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, lab in early 1960 as cold water was shot into her ears to induce vertigo.