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 ...

Every third Saturday of the month, the 321 Lime House Taproom organizes a beach cleanup at Alan Shepard Park in Cocoa Beach, from 9:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Blue Origin has revealed New Glenn is on track to launch by the end of the year - pending regulatory approval.

Ham the Astrochimp was launched from Brevard County for an 18-minute flight aboard a Mercury capsule that reached an altitude of 150 miles from Cape Canaveral.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is headed to space after being given the green light from the Federal Aviation ...

Alan Shepard entered the history books by being the first American in space. And while his launch was overshadowed by that of Yuri Gagarin - which beat his by only a few weeks - his career ...

October 5: The Soviet daily newspaper Pravda mentions ... January 31-February 9: Alan Shepard, the first American in space, commands Apollo 14 for the third lunar landing, on February 5.

Yet Isaacman's milestone also had other implications. Ever since Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, manned spaceflight has largely run through Houston's Johnson Space Center.

It’s dedicated to Christa McAuliffe, a Concord High School social studies teacher who was selected by NASA to be the first teacher in space, and Alan Shepard, of Derry, N.H., a Navy test pilot ...

The company also operates a suborbital vehicle known as New Shepard out of Van Horn, Texas. That single stage rocket mimics the flight of Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space. The vehicle ...