On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

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

"Man, I gotta pee," Alan Shepard, America's soon-to-be first man in space, radioed to the launch control room from atop his ...

Monday marks 64 years since New Hampshire native Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space.

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.

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

Katy Perry, the pop star whose lengthy catalogue includes a few songs that reference aliens and shooting across the sky. Perry told Elle earlier this month that her tailor-made space playlist — titled ...

Now that Blue Origin's latest star-studded spaceflight has come and gone, some may be wondering, "when will it be my turn?" ...

Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making history in space.

Downtown Derry Derby Day combined the Annual Derry Lions Club/Derry Parks & Recreation Fishing Derby with downtown ...

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 ...