Topic: Alan Shepard

Decoder Wire A national park on the moon? Fire up the minivan!

Two lawmakers have proposed an Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park to preserve Apollo artifacts. Which raises the questions of how do we get there, and will there be T-shirts?

NASA's pioneering astronauts: Where are they now? (+video)

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was one of 300 astronauts. What became of some of the more famous ones?

Virgin Galactic spaceship cleared for test flights

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, a commercial six-passenger spacecraft, to begin rocket-powered suborbital test flights, the company said on Wednesday. Virgin Galactic is owned by billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group.

Space pioneer John Glenn honored 50 years after historic flight

Hundreds of NASA workers jammed a space center auditorium to mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's historic flight, to see and hear the first American to circle the Earth.

NASA questions Apollo 13 cmdr's right to sell list

Greg Rohan, president of Dallas-based Heritage, said Thursday the sale has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry. The checklist, he said, is being stored for now in the company's vault.

In Pictures Timeline of American rockets

Milestones in U.S. manned spaceflight

A timeline of significant moments in America's quest to reach for the stars.
05/16/2011 08:56 am

Yuri Gagarin, Space Shuttle anniversaries celebrated on ISS

Yuri Gagarin and the Space Shuttle: Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space and the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch.
04/11/2011 03:33 pm

In Pictures Space photos of the day: John Glenn

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Coming home

In Pictures Kennedy's speeches

In Pictures Space photos of the day: Holidays in Space

In Pictures Space photos of the day: The Moon

In Pictures Space photos of the day 07/21

In Pictures Space Photos of the Day 06/15

In Pictures NASA's journey into the universe

Monitor timeline

Ten decades of product evolution and broadening reach
11/25/2008 12:00 am