NASA gets all the attention, but these 7 lesser-known US space missions quietly pushed boundaries and helped shape the future ...

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

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

NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a ...

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

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?

Monday marks 64 years since New Hampshire native Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. On May 5, 1961, ...

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. [...] ...

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

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

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in ...

The New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space, which is in line with Blue Origin's history of ...