Labels:text | paper | font | document | black and white OCR: (1923- ) ALAN BARTLETT SHEPARD became the first American in space on May 5, 1961. He spent 15 minutes and 22 seconds in space aboard Freedom 7, a one-person, bell-shaped capsule. His flight came only 23 days after that of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin (1934-68), the first person ever to fly in space. Shepard was also a crew member aboard the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, which left the Earth on January 31, 1971. During the mission he became the fifth person to walk on the Moon and the first person to play golf on its surface. 1923 Born on November 18 in East Derry, New Hampshire. 1944 Awarded a degree in aeronautics from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. 1947 Flies jet aircraft on test and training missions. 1959 April 27, chosen as part of the first group to train as astronaut ...
