America’s first astronaut Alan Shepard (left) is all smiles during water egress training in 1970 with his Apollo 14 crewmates Stuart Roosa and Ed Mitchell (right). They would fly to the moon the ...

Shepard shields his eyes from the bright sun at Apollo 14’s Fra Mauro landing site, February 1971. Of the original seven astronauts chosen by NASA in 1959, only one, Alan Shepard, made it to the ...

Alan Shepard, America's first and oldest astronaut ... Announcer: So after missing a moon landing in 1970, the Apollo 14 and 15 moon missions of 1971 put the United States that much closer to ...

A former NASA scientist explains how we know whether Blue Origin New Shepard made it to space, and how its altitude compares ...

Jul 14, 2019 Jul 14, 2019 Updated Jul 15, 2019 The late Alan Shepard of Derry became the fifth person to walk on the moon and at 47 the oldest ever, but his closest observers maintain this fierce ...

Related: Alan Shepard: 1st American in space What Shepard ... lunar sample collection device that was already on board the Apollo 14 lunar module. (Shepard donated the flown club to the United ...

Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in ... Shepard, who died in 1998, went on to command Apollo 14 in 1971, becoming the fifth moonwalker — and lone lunar golfer.