Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

On 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The mission was part of NASA’s Mercury human spaceflight programme and came just nine months after Soviet ...

You’ll be flipping dozens of them just to power up the guidance computer or initiate reentry procedures. In almost every game I have ever played, those switches and dials inside the cockpits are just ...