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 ...

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.

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 ...

Yet Isaacman's milestone also had other implications. Ever since Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, manned spaceflight has largely run through Houston's Johnson Space Center.

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.

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

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.