On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. Born in 1923, Shepard was a decorated pilot with the United States Navy before he was recruited to become one of the Mercury ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barrington students are leading an effort to rename a New Hampshire mountain peak after astronaut Alan Shepard, according to a ...

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 ...

While the Artemis II astronauts continue their mission in space, local space enthusiasts are celebrating their own way.