On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in ...

As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But ...

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler. Shepard made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating ...

Gravity is a good thing when it comes to how the human body functions, and in a place without gravity - like space - it doesn ...

In the late 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a Space Race. The Soviets had already taken an early lead by launching the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. Just weeks before ...

Experience a 10-minute ride to the edge of space with six crew members onboard the New Shepard rocket. Learn how this ...

During a stop at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel and Event Center on Wednesday afternoon, John Herrington shared with ...

The spacesuit NASA astronaut Gene Cernan wore in the 1969 Apollo 10 mission is heading back to DC after 40 years at Triton ...

See the all-female Blue Origin crew float in space. Caption: Pop star Katy Perry, CBS host Gayle King and four other women travelled to the edge of space on a Blue Origin ...

Nicholls speaks to Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.

Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@morningjournal.com or entertainment@news-herald.com. You ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Over the next 15 minutes, Shepard ascended ...