Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a common childhood experience by pointing out the similarities between what some kids ...

It’s been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S.

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be ...

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...

On National Astronaut Day, a day dedicated to celebrating America’s space icons, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense ...

Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a common ... absorbent undergarments for its crew members. "Man, I gotta pee," Alan Shepard, America's soon-to-be first man in space, radioed to the launch ...