Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

Local Antiques Roadshow fans are in for a treat starting next Monday. Last spring, PBS’s venerable antiques-appraisal series filmed part of its 24th season in San Antonio at the McNay Art Museum.

On Nov. 29, 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning. Enos became the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth ...