NASA gets all the attention, but these 7 lesser-known US space missions quietly pushed boundaries and helped shape the future ...

Sixty-four years after the first American to fly into space sought permission to pee in his suit, a new campaign is pairing ...

On National Astronaut Day, a day dedicated to celebrating America’s space icons, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense ...

On National Astronaut Day, a day dedicated to celebrating America’s space icons, the Space and Missile Defense Command team ...

It's been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S. space program today?

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...

Monday marks 64 years since New Hampshire native Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. On May 5, 1961, ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone ...

Godfrey farmers harvested and shipped asparagus nationwide each spring, making the vegetable a major local crop.