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 ...

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

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

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. [...] ...

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 ...

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