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I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.


Alan Shepard  Alan Shepard
Tags: Landing  Becoming  Aircraft  Challenged 

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Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space, and in 1971 he walked on the Moon.

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You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

    Alan Shepard  Alan Shepard   
 Tags: Busy Doing You Flight Done Real
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

    Alan Shepard  Alan Shepard   
 Tags: History Space Talent Book Believe
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We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

    Alan Shepard  Alan Shepard   
 Tags: Family College Me Financial Go Knew
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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

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 Tags: Business Best Challenge Fly Doing
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The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

    Alan Shepard  Alan Shepard   
 Tags: Attitude Airplane Speed Pilot Way
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So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

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 Tags: Man Opportunity Space Project Choose
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Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

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 Tags: Worry Cleaning Flight Over Cabin Up
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Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

    Alan Shepard  Alan Shepard   
 Tags: Landing Becoming Aircraft Challenged
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