The space race was a big deal in the 1960s, and the astronauts were the celebrities of their era, but why did almost all of them drive Corvettes?

The front page of the Deseret News on April 9, 1959, as astronauts for the Mercury 7 mission were introduced to the American ...

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 ...

Whether they had been fascinated by space for a lifetime or since the third grade, attendees cheered as the rocket lifted off ...

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 ...

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 ...