Laura Shepard Churchley's (left) father became the first US astronaut in space in 1961 The daughter of the first US astronaut, Alan Shepard, has blasted into space - 60 years after her father's ...

Laura Shepard Churchley's (left) father became the first US astronaut in space in 1961 The daughter of the first US astronaut, Alan Shepard, has blasted into space - 60 years after her father's ...

When a person flies over it, they are considered an astronaut. The spacecraft is named in honor of Alan Shepard, the first ...

After an uncrewed Mercury test flight on March 24, NASA felt ready to bring its first astronaut into space. The agency selected Alan Shepard, a World War II veteran and Navy test pilot.

Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in ... want more people to be able to experience it as well,” NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough said from the space station Wednesday.

When NASA astronaut Alan Shepard saw Earth while walking on the moon in 1971, he cried. Other astronauts who've viewed our planet from space have described feelings of awe, unity with the rest of ...

A 18.-year-old Dutchman, as well as the 82-year-old veteran of the Texas aviation industry, traveled with Bezos on the spaceflight. Both of them became the youngest and oldest astronauts ever. Alan ...

Then in 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard - the first person in space - was forced to pee his pants on the launchpad. NASA quickly realized that the lack of planning presented a rather messy problem.