50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

As the Soviet Union put the first man in space in April of 1961, the Americans were already preparing a similar mission.

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On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in a space capsule named Freedom 7. This was the ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's Freedom ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. Born in 1923, Shepard was a decorated pilot with the United States Navy before he was recruited to become one of the Mercury ...

NASA’s Joe Acabá has been replaced by Scott Tingle as the head of the Astronaut Office. The former Central Florida educator ...

Baseball legend David Ortiz turns 50 and fashion designer Christian Siriano turns 40, among the famous birthdays for Nov. 18.

VAN HORN, TEXAS - DECEMBER 11: Blue Origin’s New Shepard lifts off from the Launch Site One launch pad carrying Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of ...