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I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard

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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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