Tiny NASA Spacecraft Found Inside 50-Year-Old Time Capsule

HOUSTON — The first item pulled out from the newly-unearthed time capsule was a small, conical piece of black plastic. "A Mercury capsule!" someone called out from among the several dozen spectators. In fact, it was a model of a Gemini spacecraft, the two-man capsule that NASA was flying at the time the archive was buried outside the Clear Lake Theatre in Houston on April 20, 1966.