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 ...

When Blue Origin launched their first all-female crew, which included pop star Katy Perry, television personality Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' partner, Lauren Sanchez, the question arose: are these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gayle King continues to catch flak online as she defends her trip to space with an all-female crew. The TV host icon compared the Blue Origin flight to a pioneering 1961 space mission, in which U.S.

CBS host Gayle King responded to the backlash over the Blue Origin space flight on Tuesday and suggested the all-female crew was being held to a different standard than men who've been to space. The ...

The mission will launch on Dec. 9. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sixty years after watching her father launch on the first ...

Nobody will be giving out any medals now that Blue Origin’s eleventh crewed space flight is in the books. The brief suborbital sojourn lifted off this morning, April 14, at 8:30 a.m. CDT and landed ...

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 ...

AM CST (14:30 UTC) from Launch Site One, with the live mission webcast beginning 40 minutes prior to the target time.

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 ...