Fond Farewell

Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

November 18, 1923  - - -  July 22, 1998 

Born in Derry, New Hampshire, Astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr. became the first American to fly in space on the Mercury space capsule, and one of only a dozen Americans to walk on the moon.  He died of leukemia in a community hospital in Monterey, California.

Alan B. Shepard Links
NASA www.nasa.gov/shepard.html
Alan Shepard Page at NASA's Johnson Space Center www.jsc.nasa.gov/pao/shepard
Shepard's Apollo Mission images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/as14.htm
Shepard's Mercury Mission images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/mr3.htm

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