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Alan Shepard

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Despite what you may have heard recently, Alan Shepard was the first American in space. And he's be the first to tell you so if he were here. Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support: G'day, not a lot stood out to me. Just a few minor observations: AustralianRupert (talk) 07:12, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• is "bail out" correct or should it be "eject"?

  Y My source says "bailed out" but he would have ejected. Changed to say that. Someone once attempted to compile a list of people who ejected. [1] The aircraft killed plenty of pilots between 1949 and 1959, earning it the nickname "ensign eliminator". Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:39, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• "but emphasised that it was..." --> "emphasized"?

  Y My auto spell correction works against me her

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  Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was born on November 18, 1923, in Derry, New Hampshire. He was the first American (second person after Yuri Gagarin) to travel into space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon.

  A descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren, Shepard performed well in school, skipping the sixth and eighth grades. While attending the Pinkerton Academy, he became interested in flight and founded the school’s model airplane club. In 1938, he got to fly in a Douglas DC-3 as a Christmas present. After that, he regularly visited the Manchester Airfield offering to do odd jobs for the occasional plane ride or flying lesson.

  Shepard went on to attend the US Naval Academy where he enjoyed aquatic sports and yachting. He graduated in June 1944 and was posted to the destroyer USS Cogswell as a gunnery officer. He served at Okinawa where the ship was a radar picket, warning the fleet of incoming enemy planes. Shepard was also aboard the ship when it conducted naval bombardments of Japan and witnessed the Japanese surrender. Shepard earned his naval aviator wings after the war and spent the next several years aboard various ships and participating in test flights, of planes and jets. By 1957, he was an Aircraft Readiness Officer with over 3,600 hours flying time,