Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

8, 1961, roughly three months after astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space in his Friendship 7 capsule on May 5. Directed by Matt Shakman ("WandaVision") and starring Pedro ...

Named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space, this suborbital vehicle was designed to carry both payloads and passengers into space and return them safely to Earth. The New Shepard was ...

But there's much more to it than that. There's the should-be-obvious — the first American in space and fifth man to walk on the moon was Derry's Alan Shepard. And the not-so-obvious — a U.S ...

A restored portrait of the first American in space was unveiled Monday night at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, where Shepard spent his high school years and graduated as a member of the Class of 1940.

That single stage rocket mimics the flight of Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space. The vehicle lifts the spacecraft with experiments or paying spacefarers to space for minutes.