The Astronaut Scholarship is funded by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization created by the Mercury 7 astronauts in 1984. The foundation strives to aid the U.S. in ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

On Jan. 14, two Tech students were officially recognized as part of the 2024 class of Astronaut Scholars by the Astronaut ...

The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95. Glenn died at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he was hospitalized for more than a week, said Hank Wilson ...

It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling ...

The tests were exhausting and at times brutal. Since no one knew what zero gravity would do to the human body, Lovelace tested everything he could think of.

The four women and six men each received a silver NASA astronaut pin — a tradition dating back to the original Mercury 7 astronauts — signaling they are now eligible for spaceflight assignments.

The Apollo 7 was the Apollo Program's first ... to enter space at that time and also the only astronaut to fly in all three ...