Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

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Alan Shepard Comes Back
Apollo 14 February 5, 1971

Alan Shepard Comes Back

Alan Shepard landed on the Moon today. The first American in space — Freedom 7, fifteen minutes, May 1961 — landed on another world at Fra Mauro. He is forty-seven years old. He waited ten years for this. His first words on the surface: "It's been a long way, but…
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