See also: Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr (1923 - 1998) was the first American Astronaute .
Biography
Alan Shepard was born the November 18th 1923, with East Derry in the New Hampshire.It makes its studies with the Naval Academy of the United States, where it enters in 1944.
It was selected in 1959 by the any news NASA to belong to the first group of 7 astronauts of the Programme Mercury.
Flights carried out
He was the first American in the space the May 5th 1961, during the flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR3) where he controlled the capsule Freedom 7 for 15 minutes a suborbital flight 22 (with 3 minutes of Impesanteur).
Thereafter, it was pilot of concerning the mission Mercury-Atlases 9, but was later interdict of flight because of a disease of the internal ear (Maladie of Menière) until May 1969 (period during which it officiated as Chef of the Office of the astronauts).
10 years after its flight in Freedom 7, it was ordering mission Apollo 14 which was posed on the lunar hills of FRA Mauro on February 5th, 1971 with 9:18 min. It was the fifth man to be gone on the moon and the first player of lunar Golf (as it had promised with his father).
It had (at this time) the record of duration on the Moon (33 hours) and the record of exits on the Moon (9 hours 17 minutes at 2 exits), exceeded later by the three other missions Apollo.
It resumed the work of Chief of the Office of the astronauts in June 1971.
It left NASA and the Marine the August 1974, with the rank of Rear-admiral, to join the “Marathon Company Construction” of Houston, Texas, as associated and chair.
Later, Alan B. Shepard will be President of the companies “Seven/fourteen” in Houston.
Alan B.Shepard is deceased of a leukemia the July 21st 1998 at the age of 74 ans.
Others
- Its first sentence by posing the foot on the Moon was: “The road was long but let us be there we! ”
- It added up 216 hours and 57 minutes in space.
External bonds
- (Fr) Details of the flights carried out
- (in) official Biography on the site of NASA
See too
Reference
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