Shortly after 9 AM on May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the second person—and the first American—in space, rocketing to a height of 116.5 miles inside his Mercury capsule. Unlike Soviet ...

It was a special tribute on what would have been Alan B. Shepard Jr.’s 101st birthday. A restored portrait of the first American in space was unveiled Monday night at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, where ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's Freedom ...

Barrington students are leading an effort to rename a New Hampshire mountain peak after astronaut Alan Shepard, a native son.

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 ...