Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a childhood experience by pointing out the similarities between what some kids wear to ...

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

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

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

The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be ...

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 ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [...] ...

Two NASA astronauts plan to participate in a 6-hour, 35-minute spacewalk Thursday to upgrade the International Space ...

Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a common ... absorbent undergarments for its crew members. "Man, I gotta pee," Alan Shepard, America's soon-to-be first man in space, radioed to the launch ...