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1 day ago · The first American astronaut in space was Alan Shepard, who made a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. A photo essay on nationalreview.com documents Shepard's flight on the Mercury-Redstone 3: Freedom 7 mission. One photo (below) shows Shepard as he was lifted from the capsule
5 days ago · The famous astronauts of the 1960s Apollo program, such as Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong, certainly fit that description. These days, the space-traveler ranks are a lot more...
5 days ago · As an editor with over 10 years of experience in science journalism she has previously written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint...
10 hours ago · CBC News has made numerous requests to talk to Doerksen, Oloya or President Alan Shepard to clarify the school's concerns and to understand the specifics of the allegations.
1 day ago · When Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut in May 1961, his Redstone rocket was an outgrowth of the U.S. Army’s PGM-11 Redstone short-range ballistic missile and a direct descendent ...
4 days ago · On 5 February 1971 two astronauts (Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. and LM pilot Edgar D. Mitchell) landed near Fra Mauro crater on the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Stuart A. Roosa) continued in lunar orbit.
4 days ago · Two astronauts from each of these six missions walked on the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Charles Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Gene Cernan, and Harrison Schmitt), the only humans to have set foot on another solar system body.
