Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space ... an auction for a seat on the company’s first crew spaceflight, launched by a rocket named New Shepard.

Click here for video of the launch. Successful flight test is step toward launching NASA’s human spaceflight future By John Molene Rather than a small step, last week’s launch of the ...

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They were the first American astronauts to die in a spacecraft ... In the spring of 1967, NASA's Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr. George E. Mueller, announced that the mission ...

Here's how NASA came to rely on the two companies to resurrect American spaceflight. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are now the first people ever to fly in a commercial spacecraft.