Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon ...

Sixty-five years ago yesterday, New Hampshire native Alan Shepard became the first American to slip the surly bonds of Earth, etc., etc., etc.—his suborbital flight really little more than a cannon ...

As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (WCSC) — 37-year-old Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961. The Navy Pilot rode a Project Mercury capsule 115 miles in a suborbital flight and came back ...

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler. Shepard made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

This week marks 65 years since a Derry man became the first American to travel in space. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard made history. Sign up for our Newsletters Before lifting off, Shepard reportedly ...

NFL wide receiver Sterling Shepard was all smiles while partying in the desert at Stagecoach Festival in Indio, Calif. this past weekend, as seen in an Instagram carousel post. Shepard, who’s an ...

The Alan Wake 2 Nursery Rhymes and dolls are first encountered once you’re done with the Return 2 – The Heart chapter. Specifically, after clearing the Overlap encounter, the flood waters in Cauldron ...

Oldest member of the family pop group that had Top 10 hits in the US and UK in the early 1970s For the first half of the 1970s, the Osmonds enjoyed the kind of pop-idol adulation enjoyed by the ...

TEXAS — After a couple of delays, including unauthorized people on the launch site, Blue Origin sent up six people on its New Shepard rocket. The six are part of the NS-38 mission, Blue Origin's ...