Alan Shepard Wikipedia. Alan Shepard. NASA astronaut. A page with short opening prayers suitable for beginning meetings, bible studies, church services worship events. There is also a simple prayer for printing in a. Rome VBS 2017 by Group Paul and the Underground Church. The 2017 Holy Land Adventure Vacation Bible School by Group. Nationality. American. Born. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. November 1. 8, 1. Derry, New Hampshire, U. S. Died. July 2. 1, 1. Pebble Beach, California, U. S. Other occupation. Naval aviator, test pilot. Rank. Rear Admiral, USNTime in space. Selection. 19. 59 NASA Group 1. Total EVA time. 9 hours 2. Missions. MR 3, Apollo 1. Mission insignia. Retirement. August 1, 1. Awards. Rear Admiral. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. Sample Opening Prayer In A School Program' title='Sample Opening Prayer In A School Program' />November 1. July 2. 1, 1. 99. American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. 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 1. He was selected as one of the original NASAMercury Seven astronauts in 1. May 1. 96. 1 he made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. His craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury Atlas 1. MA 1. 0, which was planned as a three day mission. He named Mercury Spacecraft 1. B Freedom 7 II in honor of his first spacecraft, but the mission was cancelled. Shepard was designated as the commander of the first manned Project Gemini mission, but was grounded in 1. Mnires disease, an inner ear ailment that caused episodes of extreme dizziness and nausea. This was surgically corrected in 1. - Pinball Games. Shepard commanded the Apollo 1. Apollo Lunar Module. Antares to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. At age 4. 7, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to do so. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. He was Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1. July 1. 96. 9 the approximate period of his grounding, and from June 1. United States Navy and NASA on August 1, 1. He was promoted to rear admiral on August 2. Early life and educationeditAlan Bartlett Shepard Jr. November 1. 8, 1. Derry, New Hampshire, to Alan B. Shepard Sr. and Pauline Renza Shepard ne Emerson. He had a younger sister, Pauline, who was known as Polly. He was one of many famous descendants of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. His father, Alan B. Shepard Sr., known as Bart, worked in the Derry National Bank, owned by Shepards grandfather. Alan Sr. joined the National Guard in 1. France with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. He remained in the National Guard between the wars, and was recalled to active duty during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Shepard attended Adams School in Derry, where his academic performance impressed his teachers he skipped the sixth grade, and proceeded to middle school at Oak Street School in Derry, where he skipped the eighth grade. In 1. 93. 6, he went to the Pinkerton Academy, a private school in Derry that his father had attended, and where his grandfather had been a trustee. He completed years 9 to 1. Fascinated by flight, he created a model airplane club at the Academy, and his Christmas present in 1. Douglas DC 3. The following year he began cycling to Manchester Airfield, where he would do odd jobs in exchange for the occasional ride in an airplane or informal flying lesson. Shepard graduated from the Pinkerton Academy in 1. Because World War II was already raging in Europe, his father wanted him to join the Army. Shepard chose the Navy instead. He easily passed the entrance exam to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1. The Navy sent him to the Admiral Farragut Academy, a prep school for the Naval Academy, from which he graduated with the class of 1. Tests administered at Farragut indicated an IQ of 1. At Annapolis, Shepard enjoyed aquatic sports. He was a keen and competitive sailor, winning several races, including a regatta held by the Annapolis Yacht Club. He learned to sail all the types of boats the academy owned, up to and including USS Freedom, a 9. He also participated in swimming, and rowed with the eight. During his Christmas break in 1. Principia College to be with his sister, who was unable to go home owing to wartime travel restrictions. There he met Louise Brewer, whose parents were pensioners on the du Pont family estate, and, like Renza Shepard, were devout Christian Scientists. Owing to the war, the usual four year course at Annapolis was cut short by a year, and he graduated and was commissioned as an ensign on June 6, 1. The following month he became secretly engaged to Louise. Navy serviceeditYou know, being a test pilot isnt always the healthiest business in the world. Shepard quoted at the New Mexico Museum of Space History1. After a month of classroom instruction in aviation, Shepard was posted to a destroyer, USS Cogswell, in August 1. US Navy policy that aviation candidates should first have some service at sea. At the time the destroyer was deployed on active service in the Pacific Ocean. Shepard joined it when it returned to the naval base at Ulithi on October 3. After just two days at sea Cogswell helped rescue 1. USS Reno, which had been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, then escorted the crippled ship back to Ulithi. The ship was buffeted by Typhoon Cobra in December 1. Lingayen Gulf in January 1. Cogswell returned to the United States for an overhaul in February 1. Shepard was given three weeks leave, in which time he and Louise decided to marry. The ceremony took place on March 3, 1. St. Stephens Lutheran Church in Wilmington, Delaware. His father, Bart, served as his best man. The newlyweds had only a brief time together before Shepard rejoined Cogswell at the Long Beach Navy Yard on April 5, 1. After the war, they had two children, both daughters Laura, born in 1. Julie, born in 1. Following the death of Louises sister in 1. Judith Williamswhom they renamed Alice to avoid confusion with Julieas their own, although they never adopted her. They eventually had six grandchildren. On Shepards second cruise with Cogswell, he was appointed a gunnery officer, responsible for the 2. They engaged kamikazes in the Battle of Okinawa, where the ship served in the dangerous role of a radar picket. The job of the radar pickets was to warn the fleet of incoming kamikazes but because they were often the first ships sighted by incoming Japanese aircraft, they were also the most likely ships to be attacked. Cogswell performed this duty from May 2. June 2. 6, when it rejoined Task Force 3. The ship also participated in the Allied naval bombardments of Japan, and was present in Tokyo Bay for the Surrender of Japan in September 1. Shepard returned to the United States later that month. Shepard as a student aviator in 1. In November 1. 94. Shepard arrived at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, where he commenced basic flight training on January 7, 1. He was an average student, and for a time faced being bilged dropped from flight training and reassigned to the surface navy. To make up for this, he took private lessons at a local civilian flying schoolsomething the Navy frowned onearning a civil pilots license. His flying skills gradually improved, and by early 1. He was sent to Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida for advanced training. His final test was six perfect landings on the carrier USS Saipan.