Shortly after 9 AM on May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the second person—and the first American—in space, rocketing to a height of 116.5 miles inside his Mercury capsule. Unlike Soviet ...

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

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 ...

Students at Barrington Middle School are advocating for the Legislature to name a 3,814-foot mountain in Bethlehem after Alan Shepard CONCORD, N.H. — The first American in space was from New Hampshire ...

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Barrington students are leading an effort to rename a New Hampshire mountain peak after astronaut Alan Shepard, according to a community announcement. The students’ proposal, House Resolution 22, has ...