Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 capsule takes up permanent residence this week at the Hutchinson, Kansas museum where it was painstakingly restored. The Mercury-era capsule, once dubbed the “lost ...

After completing a journey of about seven years, the spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury in March 2011. It remained in orbit for the next four years before finally crashing onto the planet ' s ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts ... when he finally flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The Mercury capsule, a technological marvel that measured just 12.33 ...