Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a childhood experience by pointing out the similarities between what some kids wear to ...

On National Astronaut Day, a day dedicated to celebrating America’s space icons, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense ...

NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a ...

On National Astronaut Day, a day dedicated to celebrating America’s space icons, the Space and Missile Defense Command team ...

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?

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 ...

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

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [...] ...

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

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone ...

Godfrey farmers harvested and shipped asparagus nationwide each spring, making the vegetable a major local crop.