... Alan Shepard led the cheering as history unfolded before their eyes. For centuries, the moon has inspired artists and bewildered scientists. Its shape provides a daily calendar and clock that moves across the sky and marks holidays and ...
... ALAN SHEPARD ON MAY 5 , 1961 Note : These mission summaries are not intended to ". N ot exactly a giant step for mankind . That would come over eight years later . But Mercury - Redstone 3 was a giant step for this country , still ...
Below This photograph of Alan Shepard in a silver pressure suit was taken shortly before his historic flight aboard Freedom 7 . SHEPARD , ALAN B. , JR . ALAN BARTLETT SHEPARD JR . was born on November 18 , 1923 , in East Derry , New ...
... Alan Shepard, issue 10 June 1962, pg. 3 3. E-mail correspondence with David and Debi Barka, 3 February – 11 March 2013 4. Johnson, Caleb, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., from genealogical website at http://www. mayflowerhistory.com 5. Spartanburg ...
... Alan Shepard (TAKE3) a Naval ship was also named after him in 2006. In Concord a discovery center is named after Shepard and Christa McAuliffe as “The McAuliffeShepard Discovery Center in New Hampshire.” Due to Shepard's career as an ...
The Complete Story from Sputnik to Curiosity Giles Sparrow. EXPERIENCE ALAN SHEPARD'S SUBORBITAL HOP ONE OF A KIND Alan Shepard's crooked grin appears during rehearsals for fitting his pressure suit. Shepard was a man of contradictions ...
... Alan Shepard was among that select group . NASA announced on February 22 , 1961 , that three astronauts - John Glenn , Gus Grissom , and Alan Shepard had been selected to train for the first suborbital Mercury flight . Which astronaut ...
... Alan Shepard was among that select group. NASA announced on February 22, 1961, that three astronauts—John Glenn, Gus Grissom, and Alan Shepard—had been selected to train for the first suborbital Mercury flight. Which astronaut would ...
... Alan Shepard anxiously awaited his chance to launch into space and was becoming increasingly frustrated at the ... Alan Shepard was launched aboard the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule for a 15 minute suborbital flight (May 5, 1961). Image ...
... Alan Shepard , Captain Ed Mitchell and Lt. Col. Stuart Roosa of the Apollo 14 mission is as epochal and emo- tional a feeling as any one man needs in an entire lifetime . The thrill of meeting men who had gone all the way to the moon ...