Shepard, Alan
American Astronaut 1923-1998
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was America's first human in space and the fifth of only twelve men to walk on the Moon. His combination of professionalism ...
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Alan Barlett Shepard Jr.
1923-1998
American Astronaut
Adistinguished career as a U.S. Navy pilot and officer resulted in Alan Shepard's selection
for NASA's first class of astronaut can...
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Shepard, Alan B. (1923-1998)
American astronaut
One of the original seven American astronauts, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American to venture into space in a suborbital flight aboard the Me...
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The first American in space, Alan Shepard's (1923-1998) 1961 flight was immortalized in the book and movie, The Right Stuff.Alan Shepard was born on November 18, 1923, in East Derry, New Hampshire, a ...
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Rescuers looking for adventurer Steve Fossett are scanning the desert for a tiny, aerobatic plane that's part of a stable of aircraft at a million-acre ranch owned by an heir of the Hilton hotel fo...
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Moscow (dpa) - The battle between the United States and the former
Soviet Union to dominate space reached incredible heights during the
Cold War, with each side investing bi...
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is asking engineers to join his fledgling and secretive private aerospace business, breaking a long silence about his operation in a remote section of West Texas by po...
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Today is Monday, April 9, the 99th day of 2007. There are 266 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. ...
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She says space smells like a "burned almond cookie." She praises the wonders of Velcro, and describes the hazards of trying to wash her hair in zero gravity.
Space tourist Anousheh Ansari'...
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Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, died Thursday. He was 84.Schirra, who commanded the first ...
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Only one person on the planet has covered every manned launch out of Cape Canaveral and now, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of spaceflight, he's written a book about it.Veteran NBC space corres...
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Shepard, Alan
Alan Barlett Shepard Jr
Shepard, Alan B. (1923-1998)
Alan Shepard
Hilton ranch is big draw for aviators
