50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

Blue Origin successfully launched the 37th flight of the New Shepard program, marking a first for wheelchair altitude.

When Blue Origin launched their first all-female crew, which included pop star Katy Perry, television personality Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' partner, Lauren Sanchez, the question arose: are these ...

Veteran broadcaster Gayle King is livid and rightfully so. Following her historic suborbital spaceflight with Blue Origin, King has lashed out at critics who belittled the experience as nothing more ...

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 ...

Gayle King continues to catch flak online as she defends her trip to space with an all-female crew. The TV host icon compared the Blue Origin flight to a pioneering 1961 space mission, in which U.S.

The mission will launch on Dec. 9. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sixty years after watching her father launch on the first ...

Inevitably, there are times in a nation's history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the ...

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 ...