Alan Shepard

...machines. Readers will get to know these astronauts -- their training, tools, and lives-through Six Steps to the Moon. There's Alan Shepard and his singular ride into uncertainty; "Gus" Grissom who almost lost his life as his spacecraft sank...

In this article: Moon, Scott Carpenter, Leap of faith, Wally Schirra, and John Glenn Jr.

...space dreams, the Atlas had blown up on the launching pad. Mr. O'Malley was "Convair's toughest test conductor,'' astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Deke Slayton wrote in their history of the space program, "Moon Shot'' (Turner Publishing,...

In this article: John Glenn, Apollo, General Dynamics, Cocoa Beach, North American Aviation, and NASA

...launching pad. The company feared it would lose the contract. Mr. O'Malley was "Convair's toughest test conductor," the astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Deke Slayton wrote in their history of the space program, "Moon Shot" (Turner...

In this article: John Glenn, General Dynamics, Apollo, Cocoa Beach, North American Aviation, and NASA

...golf balls are humanity's signature litter in the most inaccessible locations." And he's not wrong. On 6th February 1971, Commander Alan Shepherd was filmed taking a swing with a six iron on the surface of the moon. According to Shepherd,...

In this article: Litter, Zinc, Patrick Harvie, Loch Ness, United States, Alan Shepherd, UK, Synthetic rubber, and Scotland

...been doing such a lousy job of it lately. Our achievements in space have been nudged or nurtured by our culture since long before Alan Shepard reached orbit in his glorified tin can. As Craig Nelson points out in Rocket Men, his recent...

In this article: Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, NASA, Star Trek, Apollo, From the Earth to the Moon, Appropriation, and Kennedy's assassination

...in honor of "visionaries, explorers and pioneers." Others have been named after Amelia Earhart, Sacagawea and astronaut Alan Shepard. Only one other ship in the class - the USNS Carl Brashear - has been named in honor of an African...

In this article: Medgar Evers, Ray Mabus, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Charles Evers, USNS Carl Brashear, Jackson State University, Mississippi, and San Diego

...in North Vietnam. In 1971, he pinned a rear admiral's star on the shoulder of astronaut and Navy officer Alan B. Shepard, soon after Shepard's flight to the moon aboard Apollo 14. The Times article from 1967 noted that the admiral was an...

In this article: Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, North Vietnam, World War II, Alan B. Shepard, NATO, Newport News, Va., and Apollo 14

...age remember carrying cards picturing the original seven Mercury astronauts. They were our heroes. We listened and watched when Alan Shepard attained suborbital flight and John Glenn orbited the earth. We were glued to the TV screen as...

In this article: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Mission to Mars, Mars, Jim Lovell, and Walter Cronkite

...better the contrasts of the Mercury and Apollo eras, look no further than the biographies Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard and First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. The former is about the first American in space;...

In this article: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, NASA, Moon, Mercury, Apollo 13, Andrew Chaikin, and The Right Stuff

...first air and space science center is opening to carry on the legacy of two New Hampshire space heroes: Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe. The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is four times the size of the original Christa McAuliffe...

In this article: New Hampshire, E-mail, All rights reserved, Apollo spacecraft, and Space Shuttle Challenger