Alan Shepard Biography

NASA presents Shepard as one of the seven pilots selected for Project Mercury, America's first human spaceflight programme.

Shepard pilots Freedom 7 on the first crewed American suborbital spaceflight, demonstrating the basic Mercury spacecraft and recovery system.

Commands Apollo 14 on a return to lunar landing operations.

Commands Apollo 14 during insertion into lunar orbit before the Fra Mauro landing.

Helps deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first surface EVA.

Pilots Antares to the most precise Apollo lunar landing achieved to that point.

Pilots Antares to a precise landing in the Fra Mauro highlands.

Commands Antares as its ascent stage leaves Fra Mauro to rendezvous with Kitty Hawk.

Hits two golf balls on the lunar surface near the end of Apollo 14 surface operations.

Explores toward Cone Crater with Mitchell during Apollo 14's second lunar excursion.

Travels with Mitchell toward Cone Crater while conducting geological observations and sample collection.

Returns with Mitchell and Roosa after completing the Fra Mauro lunar landing mission.