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Alan Shepard Biography

Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space.

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I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

Firsts, Reason, Right, Think, Thinking

Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

Atmosphere, Balls, Clubhead, Golf, Happen, Turn

If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way. ' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

Cried, Earth, Moon, Space, Way

I guess those of us who have been with NASA. . . kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Apollo, Mars, National, Pride, Thrills

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

Believe, Contribute, Field, Fields, Geophysicist, Pilots

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Airplane, Roger, Aviation, Liftoff, Clock

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Believed, Odds, Survival, Take, Think, Thinking

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Determined, Feeling, Government, Safety, Space

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

College, Condition, Financial, Would Be

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Days, Ran, School, Sports, Yard, Yards

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Pieces, Maybe, Piece, Admit, History

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

Done, Flight, Real, Sense

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Achievement, Discipline, Family, Received, School, Thinking

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

Past, Agency, Rise Above, Rise, 70S

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Believe, Book, Operation, Pages, Recognition, Spacecraft

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

Know, Knows, Moon, Pasadena

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Golf, Good, Hand, Hands, Hit, Swings

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

Fighting, Infinite, Peace, People, Space

Why don't you light that candle ?

Candle, Light, Science

Miles and miles and miles.

Golf, Miles, Railroad Tracks

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