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          Alan Shepard

          American astronaut and lunar explorer (1923–1998)

          For other uses, see Alan Shepard (disambiguation).

          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 travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47.

          A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II.

          He became a naval aviator in 1947, and a test pilot in 1950. He was selected as one of the original NASAMercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7.

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          His craft entered space, but was not capable of achieving orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space. In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10