From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...

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Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

Early Air Force experiments helped pave the way for the space program. Joseph Kittinger, who jumped from a balloon 103,000 feet up, talks about... What It's Like To Freefall From 20 Miles Above The ...

From the days of the Mercury space program, the means of evacuating astronauts from a burning or otherwise compromised rocket vexed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known just ...

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DENVER (Reuters) - Astronaut Scott Carpenter, who in 1962 became the fourth American in space and the second to orbit the Earth, died on Thursday in Colorado at age 88 of complications from a stroke, ...

ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (MRCY) (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing to the edge, today announced ...

In 1957, Ralph began working for McDonnell Douglas, where he met the love of his life, Lois. His career spanned the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs, culminating with Rockwell and ...

"I felt like it was time to give the Gemini program its due. It was an opportunity not to be missed." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...