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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The company is shifting its focus to developing lunar lander technology for NASA's Artemis missions. Nearly 100 people have flown on the suborbital New Shepard rocket since its first crewed flight in ...

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 ...

Blue Origin on Friday said it was "pausing" flights of its New Shepard rocket for at least two years, effectively cancelling the company's space tourism vehicle.

Ritchson, 43, plays a character who he says “inspires us to be the best version of ourselves” Alan Ritchson fully committed to his action-packed new role. A behind-the-scenes look at War Machine ...

Blue Origin is pausing its New Shepard space tourism flights for at least two years from Launch Site One in rural West Texas. The company is shifting its focus to developing a lunar lander for NASA's ...

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