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

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

Shortly after 9 AM on May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard ... So prominent was Shepard’s flight that it’s now marked by National Astronaut Day. President Trump commemorated the occasion in ...