But among the many facts about NASA that you should know are the stories ... pre-flight tests Before John Glenn and the rest of the Mercury 7 went into space in the early 1960s, a group of women ...

The Apollo 8 mission was a monumental chapter in the space race. The NASA astronauts were the first to orbit the moon and return to earth. The mission was a historic milestone in man’s foray into the ...

As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? (02:31 ...

BepiColombo follows in the footsteps of NASA's Mariner 10, which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which mapped it from 2008-2015. BepiColumbo is on a seven-year journey ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...

Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes is out of this world -- and out of this galaxy! A European Space Agency probe gives us new ...

Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury ...

Meaning of EMU: The term "Extravehicular" refers to activities outside the spacecraft, while "Mobility" highlights the suits' ability to let astronauts move freely ...

New study finds solid diamonds beneath Mercury’s surface. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 A new study suggests Mercury might have a thick layer of ...