Mercury Seven Astronaut ALAN B. SHEPARD, Jr.: A SMALL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL

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An original vintage postcard and newspaper article. 3.5 X 5.5 Curteichcolr postcard "U. S. NAVY COMMANDER ALAN B. SHEPARD, JR. WAS BORN NOVEMBER 18, 1923 IN EAST BERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE." The copy goes on to describe Shepard's 5 MAY 1961 Mercury flight in Freedom 7. The unused postcard is perfect.
SHEPARD, Alan Bartlett Jr. THE FIRST AMERICAN INTO SPACE AND THE FIFTH MAN ON THE MOON.
(1923-98). USNA (1944)
[126]
; WWII action aboard the
USS Cogswell
(
126]
; Naval Aviator (1947)
[131]
; member of Class 5 of the U. S. Navy's Naval Test Pilot School at NAS
Patuxent River
(1950)
[1147]
; Naval War College (1952)
[131]
; chosen as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts out of a field of 110 applicants (1959)
[0004]
.he rode into space on a Mercury-Redstone III rocket on May 5, 1961 for a duration of 15 minutes 22 seconds, the first American to rocket into space
[0095]
; recipient of the NACA/NASA Distinguished Service Medal for the first flight of an American astronaut (1961)
[40]
; grounded with inner ear problems after his historic flight, he became chief, astronaut department of NASA(
131]
; surgery restored him to flight status and he commanded the third lunar landing flight, Apollo XIV, on which he was the fifth man to walk on the surface of the moon, with Stuart A. Roosa and Edgar D. Mitchell (1971)
[131] [1549/Oct., 1995]
; he resumed his duties as chief of the astronaut department until his retirement (1974)
[131]
; Society of Experimental Test Pilots member
[0572]
. (RADM, USN.).
(Please ignore the [brackets] as they refer to my personal bibliography.)
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