Is Dead at 7. 4; First American to Travel in Space. July 2. 3, 1. 99. OBITUARYBy JOHN NOBLE WILFORD. Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American to fly in space, lifting national spirits at a decisive moment of cold war anxiety, and later one of only 1. Moon, died late Tuesday night at a hospital in Monterey, Calif. He was 7. 4 and lived in Houston and Pebble Beach.
Calif. But another former astronaut, Senator John Glenn. Ohio, said Mr. Shepard had been suffering from leukemia. Shepard became an immediate American hero. A lean, crew- cut former Navy test pilot, then 3. Mercury capsule atop a seven- story Redstone rocket filled with explosive fuel.
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After four tense. Atlantic Ocean 3. Cape Canaveral, Fla. When the message of success came through - - with a phrase that would enter the idiom, ''Everything is A- O. K.!'' - - everyone. Shepard's flight the. United States finally had reason to cheer.
Shepard's success is credited with giving President John F. Kennedy the confidence to. Moon within the decade. He announced the goal to Congress on May 2. Goldin, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the Shepard flight was ''a tremendous statement about. He crawled on top of that rocket that had never before flown into space.
That was an unbelievable act of courage.''. Dr. Logsdon, a political scientist at George Washington University and author of ''The Decision to Go to the Moon,'' said, ''One can.
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Shepard flight enabled the decision to go to the Moon.''. The historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a member of the Kennedy White House staff, recalled that the Gagarin flight and then the Bay of Pigs. Cuba a few days later had given ''Americans a slight inferiority complex.'' Then the Shepard flight produced ''a great exhilaration and.
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President Clinton hailed Mr. Shepard as ''one of the great heroes of modern America.''. Ten years after the first flight, Mr. Shepard made a comeback from a serious inner- ear problem, called Meuniere's syndrome, that had.
And it was also a comeback flight for the space program. Moon in Apollo 1. Apollo 1. 3 the year before.
He and. Edgar Mitchell spent 3. Moon, a visit made memorable by Mr. Shepard's taking several spirited whacks at golf balls with a. In the weak lunar gravity, the balls sailed. Clinton remarked, ''taking a six iron and hitting the ball, in his words, 'for miles and miles.' ''.
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Mr. Shepard was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts chosen in 1. His death leaves four survivors: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Walter Schirra and Senator Glenn, who at 7. October. Glenn in 1. American to orbit the earth. Shepard retired from both NASA and the Navy, where he had achieved the rank of rear admiral. Already wealthy from real.
Marathon Construction Corporation in Houston and later founded his own business. Seven Fourteen Enterprises.
The name recognized his two missions, Freedom 7 and Apollo 1. East Derry, N. H., where his father, a retired Army colonel, was in the insurance.
Young Alan took odd jobs at a local airfield to learn more about planes. His education began in a one- room country school. Pinkerton Academy in nearby Derry and was completed at the United States Naval Academy, where he. He served briefly on a destroyer in the Pacific in World War II before turning to aviation. When NASA asked 1. Mr. Shepard made.
It became obvious to all of us very early in our training that Al was a highly. The seven astronauts were highly competitive, each vying to be first to fly in space, and Mr. Shepard often seemed to be the most determined. Shepard presented two different faces to. Icy Commander and Smilin' Al,'' but he ''set a standard of coolness and competence that would be hard to top.'' Mr. Shepard made no secret of his intense dislike of Mr. Wolfe's book, particularly some of its character studies and its concentration on.
On a tour promoting his own book, ''Moon Shot,'' (Turner Publishing) written with Mr. Shepard often said, ''We wanted to call ours 'The Real Stuff,' since his was just fiction.''. Mr. Shepard was among three finalists for the first flight, the others being Mr.
By May 2, when the decision was. Mr. Shepard knew he would be only the first American in space, not the first ever. American space managers had scheduled a.
Mercury flight in March, but problems with a test in January troubled the engineers, who decided on another unmanned test. Mc. Dougall, in his book ''The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age,'' wrote that ''Gagarin's flight was a second. Sputnik'' and when Mr. Shepard's flight three weeks later lasted only 1. The space gap, in the eyes of the.
The Soviet press agency Tass sneered that the Freedom 7 flight ''cannot be compared with the flight of the Soviet space ship Vostok.'' In the power rivalry of the cold war, the space race had become a kind of moral equivalent of war, and in those early years after the first. Sputnik satellite in October 1. Soviet space forces seemed to be winning hands down. The United States felt its prestige ebbing with. Soviet launch. Mc. Dougall noted that a poll taken after the Shepard flight revealed that Western Europeans believed the Soviet Union to be ahead in total. Because of the many delays, he had an unremitting urge to urinate.
He kept pleading with the controllers for a break. They would not relent. Shepard described the experience in ''Moon Shot.'' ''You heard me,'' he radioed to the controllers. I've been in here.
The gantry is still right here, so why don't you guys let me out of here for a quick stretch?''. No way, Alan,'' Gordon Cooper replied, after a consultation with Dr. Wernher von Braun, the rocket scientist. Shepard suggested that he be allowed to urinate in his suit.
But that might short- circuit the medical sensors. They did, and relief finally came to Mr. Shepard, not long before he made history. A few minutes into the mission, Mr.
Shepard took over manual control from the autopilot. For five minutes, at maximum altitude and traveling more than 5,0. Yet, he said, the trip was ''pleasant and relaxing,'' with no. Years later, a reporter asked Mr. Shepard if he had indeed said A- O.
K., and. where did the term come from. John (Shorty) Powers, who was press officer to. It was Colonel Powers who had passed on the quote to reporters. Shepard and his wife, the former Louise Brewer, were entertained by the Kennedys at the White House, then whisked. New York for a ticker- tape parade in the old Lindbergh tradition. A memorandum, handed to President Kennedy the day of Mr.
Shepard's White House visit, concluded, ''Of all. On May 2. 5, Mr. Kennedy told Congress, ''This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the. And none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.''. Dr. Logsdon of George Washington University said it was doubtful that Mr. Kennedy would have issued such a challenge, if the Shepard flight. Glenn said: ''Al's flight and my flight - - it was almost like we turned a corner.
There was a great outpouring of public spirit.''. Mr. Shepard called it ''just the first baby step, aiming for bigger and better things.'' His words would be echoed eight years later by Neil A. Shepard almost did not make it to the Moon himself. Before he could train for a second space flight in the Gemini Project, he developed. Stafford, a retired astronaut, recalled yesterday that he and Mr. Shepard had been chosen for the first Gemini.
Stafford said of the medical problems that grounded Mr. Shepard was firmly rooted to NASA managerial jobs, mainly directing the astronaut corps. Stafford. recalled him as a natural leader, who operated ''with more stick than carrot and would lay down the law, saying here's how it's going to be. After surgery to correct the ear problem in 1. Mr. Shepard was cleared to fly again and was assigned to what turned out to be the third. Although his first flight had been only 1. Apollo 1. 4 journey to the Moon added 2.
Congressional Space Medal of Honor. The. foundation raises money for scholarships for science and engineering students in college. He was its president and chairman until last October. Funeral. arrangements are pending. The Soviet Union successfully launches a ''super longdistance'' intercontinental ballistic rocket, according to Tass. Sputnik 1, the first man- made satellite, is launched by the Soviet Union. Sputnik 2, carrying the dog Laika, is launched into orbit.
The first attempt to launch an American satellite, Vanguard, ends in explosion. Explorer 1, the first American satellite is launched.
July 2. 9 - - President Dwight Eisenhower signs legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA organizes Project Mercury to launch a manned capsule into orbit. Soviets launch Luna 2 spacecraft, which makes first crash- landing on moon's surface. Luna 3 sends back the first photographs of the back side of the moon. Kennedy, who had campaigned partly on the basis of a ''missile gap,'' is elected President. A chimpanzee, Ham, makes the first flight in a Mercury capsule.
April 1. 2 - - Soviets put first man in space as Yuri A. Gagarin orbits Earth once. Shepard becomes first American in space with a 1. Freedom 7 capsule, reaching an altitude of. May 2. 5 - - President Kennedy commits the United States to putting a man on the moon and returning him to Earth by the end of the decade.
Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth. Tereshkova, who orbits the Earth 4. Fire erupts on Apollo 1 space capsule killing astronauts Virgil I. White 2d, and Roger Chaffee. Apollo 8 becomes first manned vehicle to orbit the Moon, carrying Frank Borman, James A.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon. Alan Shepard, the Apollo 1.
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July 2. 3, 1. 92. Snow Hill, Alabama, United States. Genres. Jazz. Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, actor. Instruments. Double bass, bass guitar. Years active. 19. Labels. Columbia Records. Associated acts. Aretha Franklin, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Terence Blanchard.
William James Edwards . He has played the bass for many artists including Chris Anderson, Cat Stevens, Harry Belafonte, Chad Mitchell Trio, Gordon Lightfoot, Aretha Franklin, Odetta, Simon and Garfunkel, Ian & Sylvia, Tom Rush, Burt Bacharach, Peter, Paul and Mary, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Carolyn Hester, John Lee Hooker, Josh White, Duke Ellington, Malvina Reynolds, Eric Bibb, The Clancy Brothers and Bob Dylan. On the original release of Dylan's classic song . With his second wife, Susan, he has one son, Arnold Lee, who plays alto saxophone. The family feud began in 1.
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Composer. The Depot, One Mile East, Baby Sweets, The Quarter, The Rabbi, Monica, Juan Valdez and the children's opera Little Johnny. References. Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, 1. ISBN 9. 78- 1- 8. Retrieved February 1. Retrieved July 1.
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