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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in ...

As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But what happened once Alan Shepard stepped into the space capsule? Alan Shepard ...

Alan L. Becker DDS of Oak Park passed peacefully on April 23, 2026 at home with his wife at his side. Alan was married to Andrea for almost 56 years. Together they raised four great children, Chad ...

Alan Osmond and his wife, Suzanne Pinegar, were all smiles in the final photo of the singer before his death. The selfie of the couple standing outside a church in Utah was shared on Alan’s Instagram ...

Alan Osmond, the eldest member of the Osmond Brothers, has died, Fox News Digital confirms. He was 76. Donny Osmond paid tribute to Alan with a heartfelt post to his Instagram, where he shared a black ...

Alan Osmond, eldest member of his brothers’ band, The Osmonds, died Monday after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 76. Osmond, who was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease in 1987 ...

Adventurers can boat, fish, camp, hike and swim at Sumner Lake State Park along the Pecos River. Sumner Lake State Park is south of Santa Rosa and northwest of Fort Sumner, a little more than two ...

Eighth graders at Barrington Middle School are lobbying New Hampshire legislators to preserve Alan Shepard’s legacy in a mountainous way. Jeff Durell and the students in his civics class drafted, ...

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