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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.

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Alan Shepard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 18
Died: 1998
Died: July 22
Aircraft Pilot
Astronaut
Entrepreneur
Naval Officer
United States Naval Aviator
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New Hampshire
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
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