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    Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to...
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    Alan Shepard (T-AKE-3) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship in the United States Navy. She is named after the astronaut and Rear Admiral, Alan Shepard...
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    New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became...
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  • Shepard may refer to: A common misspelling of shepherd Alan Shepard, American astronaut and member of the Apollo 14 Moon mission Shepard, Alberta, Canada...
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  • Alan Shepard (1923–1998) was the first American astronaut to travel into space. Alan Shepard or Sheppard may also refer to: USNS Alan Shepard, a U.S....
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  • Alan Shepard (born c. 1962) is a Canadian academic and the current and 11th president and vice-chancellor of Western University in London, Ontario, effective...
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  • Alan B. Shepard High School is a public secondary school located in Palos Heights, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. The school, along with Dwight...
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    A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch...
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    Obie Award for this role. In the same year she was cast as Louise Shepard, Alan Shepard's wife, in the drama film The Right Stuff. She later had dramatic...
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    Mercury-Redstone 3 (category Alan Shepard)
    United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury. The project had the...
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    decision to assign Alan Shepard as the Apollo 13 commander, which was viewed by some astronauts as a conflict of interest, due to Shepard's previous position...
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  • media, Shepard is called "he" regardless of player choice for the gender. The character is inspired by and named after American astronaut Alan Shepard. Shepard's...
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    Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America. Astronauts Alan Shepard (who was the first American in space) and Deke Slayton later wrote of...
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    Patriarchatus digestus (in Latin). Vol. I. Paris, FR. coll. 775–778. Shepard, Alan; Powell, Stephen D., eds. (2004). Fantasies of Troy: Classical tales...
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    Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. The Mercury Seven created a new profession in the...
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    1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe wrote that Glenn "came...
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    serving as backup commander of the Apollo 10 mission, he was superseded by Alan Shepard. He retired from NASA and the Air Force with the rank of colonel in 1970...
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    Alan Alexander Milne (/mɪln/; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as...
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    February 1971 by Mercury veteran Alan Shepard, with Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. This time the mission was successful. Shepard and Mitchell spent 33 hours...
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  • Broadcasting Shepard, Richard F. (1978-05-03). "CBS‐TV Adds 8, Drops". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-14. Shepard, Richard F. (1978-11-09)...
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