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The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.
Alan Shepard
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Alan Shepard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 18
Died: 1998
Died: July 22
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
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Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
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But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
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Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.
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I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
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Miles and miles and miles.
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Why don't you light that candle ?
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You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
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