50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. Born in 1923, Shepard was a decorated pilot with the United States Navy before he was recruited to become one of the Mercury ...

An aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency will become the first person who uses a wheelchair to reach space on Blue Origin's next flight.

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

Strahan will fly to space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on December 9. "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan will fly to space on Blue Origin's next space flight. The Dec. 9 mission ...

Inevitably, there are times in a nation's history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the ...

Blue Origin has announced the names of six people who will fly to the edge of space from West Texas on the company's New ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...

Blue Origin reveals the six-member crew for its upcoming NS-37 mission, continuing its push to make space accessible to a ...

SPACE experts in Britain believe that the American spaceman’s short journey out of the earth’s atmosphere last Friday may well be the turning point in the race between the USA and Russia for dominance ...