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Alan Shepard was a American astronaut.

Rear Admiral '''Alan B. Shepard''' was a American [[astronaut]] born on November 18, 1923, in East Derry, [[New Hampshire]]. He was one of the [[Mercury project]] astronauts, and on May 5, 1961, he became the first American to journey into space on the ''Freedom 7'' spacecraft.

 

 

[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shepard-alan.html NASA Biography Page]