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The Alan Shepard is the third in an expected class of 11 dry cargo - ammunition ships for the Navy.
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While Alan Shepard had become the first American in space several months before, Shepard's flight was only sub-orbital, while Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Plans and Precommitment: 2012 in Space! Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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A Morse shot of Alan Shepard ran on Life's cover in May 1961, when Shepard's suborbital flight made him America's first man in space.
David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012
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A Morse shot of Alan Shepard ran on Life's cover in May 1961, when Shepard's suborbital flight made him America's first man in space.
David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012
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Let us never forget that in the eight years following Alan Shepard's 1961 sub-orbital flight America lofted more than 40 astronauts in a score of flights and landed men on the moon for an encore.
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry: Newt May Have Lost in the Space State, but He Wasn't Just Giving Way to Lunar-cy Peter Navarro 2012
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While Alan Shepard had become the first American in space several months before, Shepard's flight was only sub-orbital, while Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Plans and Precommitment: 2012 in Space! Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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James E. Webb, NASA administrator during the Mercury missions, saw an oil portrait of astronaut Alan Shepard wearing a space suit and was struck by the image.
Space, the Artistic Frontier William Triplett 2011
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Alan Shepard became America's first astronaut in space on May 5, 1961, in the same model Mercury capsule that had borne Ham.
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While Alan Shepard had become the first American in space several months before, Shepard's flight was only sub-orbital, while Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Plans and Precommitment: 2012 in Space! Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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Let us never forget that in the eight years following Alan Shepard's 1961 sub-orbital flight America lofted more than 40 astronauts in a score of flights and landed men on the moon for an encore.
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry: Newt May Have Lost in the Space State, but He Wasn't Just Giving Way to Lunar-cy Peter Navarro 2012
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