Shepard, Alan

In 1961 humans first reached outer space, when Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin flew for 60 minutes in Vostok 1. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Jr. became the first U.S. astronaut to fly in space. Shepard s Project Mercury flight lasted 15 minutes. John Glenn became the first American astronaut to circle Earth, on Eebruary 20, 1962. 

Michael Schaub, Jim Schwiegerling, Eric Fest, R Hamilton Shepard, and Alan Symmons... 

Alan Shepard, Marlowe s Soldiers Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada (Burlington Ashgate, 2002), p. 7. 

What does low cost of ownership mean Many agree with U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard who, when asked about his thoughts as he prepared for takeoff, stated,... 

Space exploration efforts have been very well publicized in recent years, and have included such notable developments, in addition to Sputnik, as the launching of manned rockets (with the first astronauts Yuri Gagarin in the Soviet Union and Alan Shepard in the United Sates), the Apollo missions to the moon (with Neil Armstrong s momentous first step), the Russian and... 

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