500 years Encased in the monument's concrete base is a time capsule containing technical reports, photos, recordings and other memorabilia related to Project Mercury.

This article originally appeared on Florida Today: On this date: NASA selects contractor to build Mercury capsule Jerrie Cobb poses with a Mercury capsule at Kennedy Space Center.

As soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy ...

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A NASA space capsule used during a launch abort test will be delivered to the University of North Dakota on Monday, Aug. 26.

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