In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, a short suborbital mission that proved humans could survive launch, weightlessness, and reentry. Behind the calm headlines was Project ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bezos' spaceflight company has been offering the cosmic joy rides aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket since the ...

Blue Origin's next rocket launch from Florida won't happen for awhile, but you can still watch Jeff Bezos' company conduct an upcoming spaceflight.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will take a hiatus from its New Shepard spaceflights in Texas to develop a moon lander for NASA that will launch in Florida.

Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to improvise, joke, and celebrate achievement, even 3,80,000 kilometers from Earth ...