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60 Years Ago: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space John Uri Johnson Space Center May 05, 2021 In 1961, the United States and the Soviet Union found themselves in a race to put the first human being into space.
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The mission commander of Apollo 14, Alan Shepard, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, became the first American to enter space with a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. Thereafter, he was grounded by Ménière's disease , a disorder of the ear, and served as Chief Astronaut , the administrative head of the Astronaut Office .
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U.S. Navy test pilot Alan Shepard joined the astronaut program in 1959. He became the first American and the second man in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer (300-mile), 15-minute suborbital flight. He would return to space nearly a decade later as an Apollo astronaut. The Story of the
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Alan Shepard was part of the first group of seven astronauts selected by NASA in 1959, then a nascent agency created to secure America's place in the Space Race against the former Soviet Union. Shepard, a military test pilot, became the first American to fly in space in 1961, and then went to the Moon in 1971 as commander of the Apollo 14 space mission.
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American Astronaut In 1959, Shepard won a coveted spot in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program for space exploration. He and six others, including John Glenn and Gus.
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The daughter of the first US astronaut, Alan Shepard, has blasted into space - 60 years after her father's flight. Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, was one of six people to make the trip onboard a.
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Alan B. Shepard, Jr., (born November 18, 1923, East Derry, New Hampshire, U.S.—died July 21, 1998, Monterey, California), first U.S. astronaut to travel in space. Shepard, Alan Alan B. Shepard in the Mercury Freedom 7 capsule May 5, 1961.
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Alan Shepard: Complicated, Conflicted and the Consummate Astronaut [/caption] 50 years ago today, Alan Shepard blasted off on board the first flight of NASA's Mercury program, becoming the.
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Of the original seven astronauts chosen by NASA in 1959, only one, Alan Shepard, made it to the moon. And he almost didn't. More than two years after his pioneering Mercury-Redstone flight in.
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On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut in space when he flew the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a suborbital flight, soaring 116 miles above Earth and then.
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On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital.
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Why don't you just fix your little problem and light this candle? - Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961 On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. His historic mission in the Freedom 7 spacecraft came a little over three weeks after the Soviet Union successfully made Yuri Gagarin the first person in space.
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Nov 17, 2023 Image Article Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., attired in his Mercury pressure suit, poses for a photo on May 5, 1961, prior to his launch in a Mercury-Redstone 3 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission - the first U.S. manned spaceflight. NASA
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Alan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 5, 1961, aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Ten years later,.
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47.
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NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. during suiting for the first manned suborbital flight, MR-3 mission. The Freedom 7 spacecraft, carrying the first American, Astronaut Shepard and boosted by the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle, lifted off on May 5, 1961. Biography Alan B. Shepard, Jr.