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 ...

This weekend 22 years ago, Chickasaw citizen, John Herrington, became the first member of an American tribe to fly in space.

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.

NFL Hall of Famer and "Good Morning America" co-host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American in space for whom the rocket is named.

A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing ... the success" of the United States' "pioneering man-in-space program." The primary feature of the installation ...

NFL Hall of Famer and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American in space for whom the rocket is named.

American astronaut Suni Williams said she was in good health despite online speculation she had lost weight. In an exclusive ...

They include: Advertisement -- Physicist Louis Daguerre in 1787 -- Journalist Dorothy Dix in 1861 -- Pollster George Gallup in 1901 -- Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space ...