A long-anticipated opening of a time capsule from 1985 finally happened on Tuesday, 40 years after it was sealed.

While the Mercury 7 symbol remains in stable condition and there is nothing that can done about the time capsule, they are monitoring one other component of the 60-year-old installation.

Related: Project Mercury: America's 1st crewed space program 500 years. Encased in the monument's concrete base is a time capsule containing technical reports, photos, recordings and other ...

The Mercury capsule acted as its nosecone, and the astronaut — or astrochimp — held on for the ride. The first Mercury-Redstone launch attempt, MR-1, took place on Nov. 21, ...

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the ...

First Project Mercury space capsule is completed at McDonnell Aircraft Corp. St Louis, Missouri, and was ready to be delivered to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallop's station ...

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This ’39 Mercury has all kinds of original details, most notably the engine and transmission. The current owner said the car was purchased by his grandfather around 1969 from the estate of the ...

View Mercury Redstone 1 The first human-rated spacecraft to achieve a successful spaceflight Mercury Redstone 1 on pad with capsule 2 mated for launch by NASA on artnet. Browse upcoming and past ...

Mercury could have a thick underground layer of ... The researchers then subjected the capsule to pressures almost 70,000 times greater than those found on Earth’s surface and temperatures up ...

Mercury could have a thick underground layer of diamonds, scientists say. Some of the stones may have found their way to the surface, according to a recent study.