Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

About a dozen Lake Geneva middle school students stood silent and wide-eyed at the end of the Tommy Bartlett Exploratory tour Wednesday, gazing upon the facility's newest addition: the Mercury Space ...

First Project Mercury space capsule is completed at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. St Louis, Missouri, and was ready to be delivered to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallop's station, ...