It commemorates the first United States human spaceflight by Astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. who became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 Space capsule on May 5, 1961.

Boeing sent those two astronauts into space and they returned on a SpaceX mission after NASA and Boeing scrapped their return aboard the capsule. Through November, NASA said there are 47 active ...

Paul Van Hoeydonck originally wanted the statuette to celebrate "humanity rising into space." A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in ...

India now plans to launch astronauts to space no sooner than 2027 ... and a newly designed capsule ejection tower to separate the crew and spacecraft from the rocket in case of emergency.

In an interactive session at the Global Space Exploration Conference here, Sharma said astronauts who had been to the moon also shared that the Earth appeared more grey and less blue than it did ...

May 5 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American to go into space. On May 5, 1961, Shepard's Freedom ...

The two astronauts missed family events ... To get Yulia and the director to the space station, they would fly aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, and the Soyuz MS-19 vehicle would be ready to ...

This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Don Pettit ... the atmosphere in a Russian Soyuz capsule to wrap up a seven-month mission at the International Space Station. In his first public ...

Since then, Ayers has spent 50 days in space, astronauting. This included a spacewalk last week, her first, alongside veteran astronaut Anne McClain. As they returned to the airlock, the Earth ...