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

It's been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S. space program today?

April 19 (UPI) --NASA astronaut ... on National Astronaut Day May 5 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming ...

Sixty-four years after the first American to fly into space sought permission to pee in his suit, a new campaign is pairing ...

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 ...

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.

That said, NASA astronauts typically fly to the International Space Station, which orbits at 254 miles above sea level. The first American in space, Alan Shepard, soared to 116 miles above sea ...

That’s not the way it was on May 5, 1961, when NASA astronaut Alan Shepard flew a similar flight profile—a popgun trajectory above the atmosphere and a landing just a few hundred miles down ...