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

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

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 ...

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

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

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone ...

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

Gayle King compared the flight to the historic launch in 1961 that made Nasa astronaut Alan Shepard the first American in space. Among the critics was the US transport secretary, Sean Duffy ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [...] ...