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StarChild: Alan Shepard

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Description: Biography of one of seven men chosen from over 500 candidates to be a member of the first group of astronauts in 1959.
Alan Shepard was one of seven men chosen from over 500 candidates to be a member of the first group of astronauts in 1959. Alan Shepard was born in 1923 in New Hampshire. He attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland where he graduated in 1944. Shepard served on a destroyer during World War II and was a Navy test pilot at the time he was selected to join the Astronaut Corps. He became the first American to enter space on May 5,1961. Though Shepard spent only 5 minutes in actual space aboard
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