50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

Fifty years later, it remains the most impressive bunker shot in the history of golf, mainly because of the location. The moon. Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. and his crew brought back 42 ...

FILE - In this May 5, 1961 file photo, astronaut Alan Shepard arrives at the launching pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to board a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's Freedom ...

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When Blue Origin launched their first all-female crew, which included pop star Katy Perry, television personality Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' partner, Lauren Sanchez, the question arose: are these ...

Gayle King continues to catch flak online as she defends her trip to space with an all-female crew. The TV host icon compared the Blue Origin flight to a pioneering 1961 space mission, in which U.S.

Some astronauts came heartbreakingly close to glory. Alan Shepard missed being first in space by just 23 days while a Soviet cosmonaut nearly walked on the Moon before Armstrong. The bittersweet ...

Now that Blue Origin's latest star-studded spaceflight has come and gone, some thrill seekers may be wondering, "When will it be my turn to go to space?" The launch April 14 from the private space ...

AM CST (14:30 UTC) from Launch Site One, with the live mission webcast beginning 40 minutes prior to the target time.