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 ...

Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin has teamed up with Verizon to help promote the company's satellite-based solution to cell ...

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 ...