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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...