Alyssa Thomas scored 20 points and the Phoenix Mercury walloped the the Las Vegas Aces 99-66, making sure the only ...
The legacy of Apollo 11 and Mercury-Redstone 3 is no longer confined to dusty archives or grainy television broadcasts; in 2026, these pivotal moments are being reimagined through cutting-edge ...
On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ...
On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...
On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in ...
On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...
America's first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.
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This day in history: The first American goes to space
In the late 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a Space Race. The Soviets had already taken an early ...
In 1260, Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, become ruler of the Mongol Empire. In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica.
As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But ...
Specialized Navy medical teams will meet the Artemis II astronauts in the water when the spaceship lands this evening.
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