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

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

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 ...

King responded to the backlash in comments to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, where she compared the Blue Origin flight to the historic space flight taken by American astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961.

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 ...

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 ...

Also sharing the ride were film producer Kerianne Flynn; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA engineer ... Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, for ...

Also sharing the ride were film producer Kerianne Flynn; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA engineer ... Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, for ...

PEOPLE spoke exclusively with former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and ... which we all know Alan Shepard (the first American in space), but very few people know that New Shepard (Blue ...