These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...

NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

A gold watch gifted to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong that "is symbolic of man's greatest achievement of the 20th century" is currently at auction.

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

Could an astronaut leave the relative safety of ... when command-pilot Wally Schirra brought his spacecraft within inches of Frank Borman's Gemini 7. The maneuver required more than 35,000 ...

Fellow astronaut Michael Collins’ watch hammered for $765,000 in 2022, and Walter “Wally” Schirra’s achieved $1.9 million that same year. Schirra was the first NASA astronaut to wear a ...

Space music dates back to 1965 when Gemini 6 astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford smuggled ... Art Beyond Earth Apollo 15’s crew left _The Fallen Astronaut_, a 3.3-inch aluminium sculpture ...