50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in a space capsule named Freedom 7. This was the ...

TODAY MARKS 64 YEARS SINCE A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN TO TRAVEL TO SPACE. ON MAY 5TH, 1961, ALAN SHEPARD TRAVELED TO SPACE ON BOARD THE FREEDOM SEVEN SPACECRAFT. SHEPARD WAS BORN IN ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch a rocket from West Texas bearing six lucky passengers who will become the latest to ride ...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. Born in 1923, Shepard was a decorated pilot with the United States Navy before he was recruited to become one of the Mercury ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CNX Resources Corporation (CNX) today announced that Alan Shepard, currently serving as President and Chief Financial Officer, will assume the role of ...

In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3, just weeks after Yuri Gagarin’s historic orbital flight. This video explores how close the United States ...