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Alan Shepard

54 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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54 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
r/space - 54 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
Katherine Johnson, "human computer", famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962
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• Katherine Johnson, "human computer", famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962
r/OldSchoolCool - Katherine Johnson, "human computer", famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962
Alan Shepard takes a couple golf swings on the lunar surface 1971. Today would have been Alan’s 100th birthday.
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• Alan Shepard takes a couple golf swings on the lunar surface 1971. Today would have been Alan’s 100th birthday.
TIL In 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. He made four swings, “a shank” with the third, and on the fourth swing he caught the ball flush. “Miles and miles and miles,” he said to the TV audience
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TIL: Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first -- and only -- person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.
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TIL When Alan Shepard was asked what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder."
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TIL that NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard by hand, and was called on by NASA officials to verify the computer's calculations of John Glenn's orbit around Earth.
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TIL When reporters asked astronaut Alan Shepard what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he replied: "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder"
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Astronaut Alan Shepard during preflight medical examination. 1961
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• Astronaut Alan Shepard during preflight medical examination. 1961
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TIL... When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder." [Fixed Title]
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