We all have our favorite "bad" comedies that we put on to laugh. Just because a film didn't do well with critics doesn't mean ...

On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in ...

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 what happened once Alan Shepard stepped into the space capsule? Alan Shepard ...

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 ...

Tuesday marks 65 years since New Hampshire native Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space.

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 ...

In 1961, amidst the tensions of the Space Race, NASA made an unpopular choice: Concerned with booster issues during a January test flight with a chimpanzee, the agency chose to run additional tests ...

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 ...

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 ...

It didn’t take long for Faith Lutheran baseball coach Dave Anderson to realize that incoming freshman Rookie Shepard, before officially playing a high school game, was going to be a special player. As ...