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British aeronautical engineer who played a key role in Nasa and America’s space race

Sixty years ago today at this very moment, in a rare midday joint session address to Congress, John F. Kennedy set an incredible goal for the nation.

Last Updated: NASA Marks 60th Anniversary Of First American In Space Onboard Freedom 7 capsule “Inclement weather scrubbed first launch on May 2, 1961, and NASA decided it was time to announce that Shepard would indeed be making first flight," NASA said. (Image Credit: NASA)  On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first man to reach space onboard the Freedom 7 space capsule. On Thursday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) commemorated...

NASA Honours Alan Shepard as It Celebrates 60th Anniversary of First American in Space On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard rocketed to space in the now-iconic Mercury capsule, Freedom 7. By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 6 May 2021 17:08 IST Photo Credit: Twitter/ @nasa Alan Shepards brief flight proved to be a stepping stone for the US in the realm of space Highlights President Kennedy presented him with the Distinguished Service Medal Shepard bec...

Type keyword(s) to search "I Lived With the Astronauts": PM at the Beginning of U.S. Spaceflight In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight. By Joseph N. Bell CorbisGetty Images On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard packed into the cramped Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket and blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA astronaut climbed to an altitude of 116 miles above Eart...

Sixty years ago, on May 5, 1961, a Redstone rocket hurled Alan Shepard’s Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, 116 miles (187 km) high and 302 miles (486 km) downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Freedom 7 parachuted into the Atlantic just 15 minutes and 22 seconds later, after attaining a maximum velocity of 5,180 mph (8,336 km/h). Shepard, a Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut, became the first American to fly in space. Shepard’s flight was a triumph, not least because it had been conducted live...

Saturday - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Channel 4, 6.45pm. The jury may still be out on whether JRR Tolkiens sprightly novel really benefited from being stretched out over a trilogy of movies, but there is still much to enjoy in director Peter Jacksons opening instalment, including a near perfect cast. In the first deviation from the text, Jackson begins his picture at Bag End with the elderly Bilbo (Ian Holm) penning a book to his cousin Frodo (Elijah Wood). We rewind 60 years to m...

  Mars has always been a source of wonder for many space enthusiasts. While practical entrepreneurs plan to mine the Moon and the asteroids, others dream of exploring the Red Planet and, eventually, making it a second home.  Robert Zubrin envisions Mars as the next frontier, serving the Earth as a place to go and make a new start much as the Americas did 200 or so years ago. SpaceX’s Elon Musk So far Mars has only been visited by machines, humanity’s surrogates that fly by it, orbit it an...

On Monday, the first day of Black History Month, Northrop Grumman shared the news that it has named its NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft after former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, a West

Tributes to Hull centenarian who helped launch man into space Thomas Chambers was recognised by NASA for his contribution to manned space flight programmes Thomas Vincent Chambers was recognised for his work on manned space flights Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recom...