Project Mercury Rising proposes to restore and revive ... Graphic artist Cece Bibby with Wally Schirra, as she applies the Sigma 7 logo to his Mercury spacecraft. Launch of the Mercury-Atlas ...

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

On the 50th anniversary of that mission, Roger Launius reconsidered the legacy of Project Mercury and America’s first astronauts, examining the origins of these first attempts to reach into ...

The men chosen for Project Mercury, begun in 1958, were all military test pilots and would come to be known as the Mercury 7. There was one little-known fact about the Mercury project—women test ...

Jennifer Scheer, who will soon end her eight-year career servicing NASA's orbiters, conceived the idea, which she has dubbed "Project Mercury Rising." She has proposed restoring the Complex 14 ...