Before Apollo, there was Gemini, and before Gemini, there was the Mercury program. This episode examines Mercury, the first U.S. program to put a man in space. It looks at the people, such as ...
The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off August 10, 2001 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photo Credit: NASA via Getty Images) After 45 years and innumerable blastoffs, NASA has just retired the ...