Historic photograph showing astronaut Alan Shepard on the lunar surface, standing beside the American flag during the Apollo 14 mission. A key moment in the continued exploration of the Moon, ...
Apollo 13 in April, 1970, was a near-disaster. An oxygen tank aboard the spacecraft exploded, taking away the opportunity to make NASA’s third lunar landing and very nearly killing the three ...
On Feb. 6, 1971, Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard Jr. closed out his moonwalk with one of the most famous golf shots of all time. Shepard, an avid golfer, hit two balls using his makeshift Wilson Staff ...
More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree seeds accompanied the mission on its journey around the Moon. While astronauts Alan Shepard and ...
As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But what happened once Alan Shepard stepped into the space capsule? Alan Shepard ...
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