Trying to dig herself, Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez out of a P.R. debacle, King actually likened their Jeff Bezos space-tourism ride to Alan Shepard’s historic 1961 mission.

Shepard, a couple of weeks before his first spaceflight in May 1961. NASA It was Wernher von Braun who kept Alan Shepard from becoming the first man in space. In March 1961, with the new Mercury ...

America’s first astronaut Alan Shepard (left) is all smiles during ... In 1941, a college junior and newly minted private pilot was on his way to his childhood sweetheart’s church organ ...

ON MAY 5TH, 1961, ALAN SHEPARD TRAVELED TO SPACE ON BOARD THE FREEDOM SEVEN SPACECRAFT. SHEPARD WAS BORN IN DERRY. HE WENT TO PINKERTON ACADEMY BEFORE GOING ON TO THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY.

Blue Origin's NS-31 mission was the company's 11th human flight in its New Shepard program. Blue Origin's website describes the New Shepard vehicle as follows: Named after astronaut Alan Shepard ...

Meanwhile, in the Supersonic Race, “good ol’ American knowhow” got first dibs, as the legendary Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 ...

The connection between astronauts and Corvettes started in 1962 with Alan Shepard ... many astronauts were former fighter pilots, and the love of all things fast was one of their defining traits.

From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the ... The US managed to shoot a human – Alan Shepard, who later went on to walk on the moon ...

One way she did so was by likening their trip to the truly historic 1961 flight taken by “Right Stuff” astronaut Alan ... test pilots, they liked to be in control of their craft. Shepard ...