Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to improvise, joke, and celebrate achievement, even 3,80,000 kilometers from Earth ...

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.

On February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Al Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon. Though he was there doing scientific research, the impromptu one-man game of golf was really ...