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 ...

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.

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

B lue Origin's latest private mission to space made bigger headlines than usual — but the buzz surrounding the flight had ...

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

Blue Origin's footage clearly shows the capsule's hatch briefly opening from the inside before Bezos appears to open it with a tool.

King responded to the backlash in comments to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, where she compared the Blue Origin flight to the historic space flight taken by American astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961.

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 ...