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

Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard is composed of both a rocket and a crew capsule and is designed to be fully reusable. The New Shepard's crew ...

America’s first astronaut Alan Shepard (left) is all smiles during water egress training in 1970 with his Apollo 14 crewmates Stuart Roosa and Ed Mitchell (right). They would fly to the moon the ...

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 ...

Neil Armstrong gets all the credit for being the first man to walk on the moon, but it was Alan Shepard who recorded an American man’s first steps in the space race with the Soviets when he ...

One way she did so was by likening their trip to the truly historic 1961 flight taken by “Right Stuff” astronaut Alan Shepard. As a member of NASA’s original Mercury 7 astronauts in the ...