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Able and Baker hit an altitude of 300 miles (480 kilometers) during their brief suborbital flight.
It was 60 years ago today (May 5) that Alan Shepard, America's first spaceflyer, urged nervous flight controllers to ''fix your little problem and light this candle" to send him into space.
Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon during the world's first lunar landing mission, has died at the age of 90.
Most golfers really want to avoid sand traps, but NASA astronaut Alan Shepard had no choice but to deal with that when wielding a six-iron head on the moon's dusty surface 50 years ago this month.
National Geographic has announced an ambitious new show that will chronicle NASA's attempt to send the next man and first woman to the moon.
The man who first broke the speed of sound died Monday (Dec. 7) at age 97.
Chuck Yeager, the U.S. Air Force Pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier, passed away today (Dec. 7) at the age of 97.
