Alan Shepard
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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.