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Alan Shepard
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Alan Shepard |
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Born on: |
18 Nov 1923 |
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Join NASA in: |
2 Apr 1959 |
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Current status: |
Died 22 Jul 1998 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Mercury 3 |
Pilot |
5.05.1961 |
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Apollo 14 |
Cmdr |
31.01. - 09.02.1971 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Rear Admiral Shepard was one of the Mercury astronauts
named by NASA in April 1959, and he holds the distinction
of being the first American to journey into space. On May
5, 1961, in the Freedom 7 spacecraft, he was launched by a
Redstone vehicle on a ballistic trajectory suborbital
flight--a flight which carried him to an altitude of 116
statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles
down the Atlantic Missile Range.
Shepard made his second space flight as spacecraft
commander on Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971. He
was accompanied on man's third lunar landing mission by
Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, and Edgar D.
Mitchell, lunar module pilot. Maneuvering their lunar
module, "Antares," to a landing in the hilly upland Fra
Mauro region of the moon, Shepard and Mitchell
subsequently deployed and activated various scientific
equipment and experiments and collected almost 100 pounds
of lunar samples for return to earth. Other Apollo 14
achievements included: first use of Mobile Equipment
Transporter (MET); largest payload placed in lunar orbit;
longest distance traversed on the lunar surface; largest
payload returned from the lunar surface; longest lunar
surface stay time (33 hours); longest lunar surface EVA (9
hours and 17 minutes); first use of shortened lunar orbit
rendezvous techniques; first use of colored TV with new
vidicon tube on lunar surface; and first extensive orbital
science period conducted during CSM solo operations.
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