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Alan Shepard

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 18, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:21, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Shepard, commander of Apollo 14
Alan Shepard, commander of Apollo 14

Alan Shepard (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman who was the second person, and the first American, to travel in space, and the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon. An Annapolis graduate, he became a naval aviator in 1946 and a test pilot in 1950. He was selected as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was grounded in 1963 with Ménière's disease, an inner-ear ailment that caused dizziness and nausea. This was surgically corrected, and in 1971 he commanded the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. He was Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1963 to 1969 and 1971 to 1974, and was promoted to rear admiral in 1971, becoming the first astronaut to reach that rank. (Full article...)