NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all ...

Bill Taub caught it: We were all that captivated by Mercury. John Glenn’s crisp white shirt ... before he would climb aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft and ride an Atlas rocket on the same ...

IN 1964, MOST VIEWERS OF TELEVISED SPACE "SHOTS," AS THEY WERE CALLED THEN, knew what it took to protect a spacecraft ... the final minutes of John Glenn’s 1962 Mercury flight, when Mission ...