Tag: Alan Shepard

  • First Manned Space Missions

    Sixty-five years ago, the first humans from the planet Earth ventured into outer space. Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth one time in Vostok 1 on…

  • Project Mercury

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 2. Sixty years ago this month (February 20, 1962), Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the…

  • First Humans in Space

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 7. Sixty years ago, humans from the planet Earth left their world for the first time and journeyed into…