Apollo 14
February 5, 1971
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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February 5, 1971
Alan Shepard walked on the Moon today. The first American in space, fifteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds in 1961, just hit a golf ball on the lunar surface.
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May 5, 1961
He went. He came back. He was in space for fifteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds, and the whole country stopped to watch.
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