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 shields his eyes from the bright sun at Apollo 14’s Fra Mauro landing site, February 1971. Of the original seven astronauts chosen by NASA in 1959, only one, Alan Shepard, made it to the ...

Alan Shepard, America's first and oldest astronaut ... Announcer: So after missing a moon landing in 1970, the Apollo 14 and 15 moon missions of 1971 put the United States that much closer to ...

Shepard would also go on to command the Apollo 14 mission to the moon in which he became the first astronaut to hit a golf ball on the lunar rock. Former NASA astronaut Alan Shephard lines up a ...

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.

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

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...

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

Based on the seat assignments provided by the company, one of the six newly qualified astronauts has ... Bowe's family originates. Shepard later walked on the moon on Apollo 14, so is not included ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft will launch an all-female crew, including Katy Perry and Gayle King, on April 14, 2025 ... It is named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American ...

One way she did so was by likening their trip to the truly historic 1961 flight taken by “Right Stuff” astronaut Alan Shepard ... Moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, famously ...