Locked in competition with the U.S.S.R., NASA's race to put a human with 'the right stuff' in space enthralled the world. It also became the shoulders upon which exploration beyond Earth's borders ...

This series will explore historic space missions from the start of the Space Age to the present day, including both crewed and robotic missions. Here we will investigate the scientific rationale ...

This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...

2011-06-25T09:31:48-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/22c/20110625100315003_hd.jpgOn May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief ...