Astronaut Alan Shepard

Astronaut Alan Shepard

Alan Shepard

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Apollo Project (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Astronauts--United States

Shepard, Alan Bartlett, 1923-1998

A portrait of Mission Commander Alan Shepard (1923-1998), the first American in space, likely taken around the time of his Apollo 14 flight. Shepard was the only Mercury Seven, as the original seven astronauts were called, to also walk on the Moon. Apollo 14 was the third mission to land men on the Moon, including Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa (1933-1994), and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell (1930-). These three astronauts conducted a ten-day mission that launched on January 31, 1971, from John F. Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, and landing in the Pacific Ocean on February 9, 1971. The mission landed Shepard and Mitchell on the Moon, where they collected specimens, conducted, research and even hit a couple of golf balls using a special club that Shepard had stowed away.

Original black and white photographic print: Space Walk of Fame Collection.

ca. 1971

Digital reproduction of original black and white photographic print.

Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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1 black and white photographic print

Still Image

Merritt Island, Florida

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History Teacher

Civics/Government Teacher

Copyright to this resource is held by Florida Space Coast History Project and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Astronaut Bio: Alan B. Shepard, Jr. 7/98." 2015. Johnson Space Center. Accessed July 30. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shepard-alan.html.

1 black and white photographic print