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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.

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. In 1971 he landed on the moon as leader of the Apollo 14 mission.