Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is being assisted by a technician in getting into his space suit at 2:45 a.m. this…
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is being helped into the lower half of his pressure suit for the Mercury-Redstone 3…
Astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn at breakfast before Shepard’s Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spaceflight.
President Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress stating that the US would send a man to the Moon and…
Alan Shepard piloted his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule for a 15 minute suborbital flight with no communication glitches. He was…
Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a…
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used the same antennas built for Project Echo to conduct radar experiments to determine Venus’…
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight.
Alan Shepard prepares his sub-orbital spaceflight in the procedures trainer before launch of Freedom 7.
The 26 meter antenna in Woomera, Australia became operational when it received voice and teletype message from Goldstone via reflection…