From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II.

In 1960, NASA’s Mercury Redstone 1 test rose just four inches off the pad, leaving a fully fueled rocket armed and dangerously unstable. The humiliating failure exposed how fragile early American ...

Initially awarded in 2023, Mercury’s work on this program will now continue through 2031 and include delivery of additional flight-testing units. In a separate December award, Mercury secured a new ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...