In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets
The BepiColombo robotic explorer - a joint venture between Europe and Japan - swooped as close as 295 km above Mercury's ...
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Capsule, Mercury, MA-7
On May 24, 1962, M. Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in this capsule, becoming the fourth American in space and the second to go into orbit. His mission, Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7), lasted 4 ...