The Mercury-era capsule, once dubbed the “lost child” of the space program, has been on a six-year nationwide tour at museums in Boston, Cape Canaveral, Florida, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix and ...

The Vostok spacecraft weighed over 10,000 pounds ... one of the Saturn V and one of Skylab.” The Mercury model is borrowed from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.