This week marks 65 years since a Derry man became the first American to travel in space. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard made history. Sign up for our Newsletters Before lifting off, Shepard reportedly ...

In 1961, amidst the tensions of the Space Race, NASA made an unpopular choice: Concerned with booster issues during a January test flight with a chimpanzee, the agency chose to run additional tests ...

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.

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 ...

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler. Shepard made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

Eighth graders at Barrington Middle School are lobbying New Hampshire legislators to preserve Alan Shepard’s legacy in a mountainous way. Jeff Durell and the students in his civics class drafted, ...

Jared Isaacman, head of NASA, draws a comparison to astronaut Alan Shepard, who took a few golf swings to the Moon in 1971, ...