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Alan Shepard

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It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.


— Alan Shepard


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I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.


— Alan Shepard


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It's been a long way, but we're here.


— Alan Shepard


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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.


— Alan Shepard


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I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.


— Alan Shepard


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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.


— Alan Shepard


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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.


— Alan Shepard


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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.


— Alan Shepard


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Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.


— Alan Shepard


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Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.


— Alan Shepard


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About Alan Shepard

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Did you know about Alan Shepard?

He was also project test pilot on the F5D Skylancer and his last five months at Patuxent were spent as an instructor in the Test Pilot School. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.

He was promoted from Captain to Rear Admiral on August 25 1971. During the mission he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space but not to achieve orbit.

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