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 ...

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The space race was a big deal in the 1960s, and the astronauts were the celebrities of their era, but why did almost all of ...

Fifty-three years ago M0nday, Derry native Alan Shepard walked on the moon while on the Apollo 14 mission on Feb. 5, 1971. Shepard was the commander of the mission that launched on a Saturn V rocket.

The front page of the Deseret News on April 9, 1959, as astronauts for the Mercury 7 mission were introduced to the American ...

Eighth graders at Barrington Middle School are New Hampshire legislators to preserve Alan Shepard’s legacy in a mountainous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barrington students are leading an effort to rename a New Hampshire mountain peak after astronaut Alan Shepard, according to a ...