NASA has named its new class of astronaut candidates. The space agency introduced the four men and six women who comprise its ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The 2011 John H. Glenn lecture featured a moderated conversation with two of NASA's original Mercury astronauts: John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.

NASA unveiled 10 recruits who will undergo training to become eligible for future missions that could carry humans deeper ...

When Scott Carpenter looked out from his spacecraft window in 1962, the view forever changed him. Below was a glowing blue ...

(CNN) -- The first seven U.S. astronauts were hailed as heroes two years before any of them had ventured beyond Earth's comforting blue atmosphere. Introduced to the public on April 9, 1959, the ...

Mickey Kapp, a record producer who, after forging a somewhat improbable connection with several Mercury 7 astronauts, went on to provide later space explorers with customized mixtapes to listen to ...

Scott Carpenter, one of two remaining astronauts from NASA’s Mercury program and the second American to orbit the earth, died Wednesday at the age of 88. His family did not specify a cause of death, ...