Freedom 7
The View From Freedom 7
51 years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA launched the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket carrying Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard…
13 years ago
Rare and Unpublished LIFE Photos of Alan Shepard’s Historic Flight
[/caption] If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen how I was oohing and aahing about a wonderful…
14 years ago
USPS Commemorates Spaceflight Past and Present
Postage stamps honoring Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, America's first man in space, and NASA's MESSENGER probe, the first spacecraft to…
14 years ago