Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in flight couch for final check before insertion into capsule for his Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3)…
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.
