In 1971 this first American in space served as a delegate to the 26th U.N. General Assembly
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. Archives - This Day in Aviation  ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow of the American Astronautical Society and the ... in July 1971 as a delegate to the 26th United Nations General Assembly and served ... and he holds the distinction of being the first American to journey into space. ... Shepard made his second space flight as spacecraft commander on Apollo 14,...
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Astronaut Bio: Alan B. Shepard, Jr. 7/98 - Johnson Space Center  ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow of the American Astronautical Society and the ... in July 1971 as a delegate to the 26th United Nations General Assembly and served ... and he holds the distinction of being the first American to journey into space.
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Shepard, Alan B. (1923-1998) - Dictionary definition of Shepard ...  In 1971, appointed by President Nixon, he served as a delegate to the 26th United Nations General Assembly. ... Interest in the first manned American space flight was keen, forcing NASA to keep Shepard's identity secret until three days...
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Alan Shepard dies; in 1961 he became first American in space ...  Jul 22, 1998 ... Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly in space and the fifth human to walk ... After his second flight, Shepard served as a delegate by presidential appointment to the 26th United Nations General Assembly in 1971.
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Alan Shepard - Wikipedia  He was appointed by President Richard Nixon in July 1971 as a delegate to the 26th United Nations General Assembly, serving from September to December...
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Senator John Glenn - In 1962 he was the first American to orbit the ...  In 1998 he went up again aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, this time as a sitting US Senator and ... Sally Ride was the first female astronaut to go into space.
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CHRONOLOGY OF DEFINING EVENTS IN NASA HISTORY  1968 In a significant first, the Soviet Union sent its Zond 5, lunar mission ..... 3-10 Feb. 1984 The flight of STS-41B, the Space Shuttle Challenger, took place.
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First man in space - Apr 12, 1961 - HISTORY.com  Apr 12, 1981 ... On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
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Biography - John H. Glenn | NASA  He was selected as a Project Mercury astronaut in 1959. ... On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to .... At that point, two American astronauts made short trips into space, but did not reach orbit. ... "The very first time we saw a missile launch, it went up and blew up at 27,000 feet and...
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Biography - John H. Glenn | NASA  John Herschel Glenn, Jr. was born July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. ... 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. ... On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth ..... And a ticker tape parade in New York City celebrated his mission.
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John Glenn, 75, wants to be oldest person to orbit Earth - CNN.com  Jun 21, 1997 ... John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, wants to ... later elected to the U.S. Senate from Ohio, a job he's held for the last 22 years.
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Apollo 8: First Voyage to the Moon, 1968 - EyeWitness to History  On May 5, 1961 Allan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American to enter space ... called upon Congress to establish a space program that would land men on the ... Apollo 8 would be the first mission to actually make the journey to the moon. ... Apollo 8 approached the moon on December 24, 1968 with its crew of Frank...
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NASA - Excerpt from the 'Special Message to the Congress on ...  Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961 ... First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. ... space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.
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Human spaceflight - Wikipedia  The USSR launched the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit in Vostok 1 on a Vostok 3KA rocket, on April 12, 1961. The US launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard on a suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7 on a Mercury-Redstone rocket, on May 5, 1961.
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The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Have Been in Space  Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; Astronaut; in February 1962, first American to orbit the earth; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1975-99; candidate...
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Project Apollo: Americans to the Moon - NASA History Homepage  Manned Space Flight was created in spring 1959; it consisted of top-level .... Satellites and spacecraft 24% (Including 7% on Project Mercury). Ballistic ...... INTRODUCTION ...... neglected in seeking public appreciation and acceptance of the program. .... flight of Alan Shepard, the first U.S. astronaut, on Friday, 5 May 1961.
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U.N.: 50 YEARS FENDING OFF WWIII - The Washington Post  Jun 25, 1995 ... It was the eve of her first speech before the 1945 organizing conference of ... Bernardino, 88, is one of four surviving signatories of the U.N. Charter, which was hammered out ... from 50 nations and signed in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. .... The lone American woman delegate, Virginia Gildersleeve, the...
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Picture Archive: First Seven Astronauts, 1962  May 9, 2013 ... On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard (back, far left) made it into spaceand backjust 23 days after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to do so. Less than a year later, John Glenn (front, second from right) became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space - Space.com  Jul 24, 2012 ... Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space | The Greatest Moments in Flight ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space ... The United States and the Soviet Union vigorously competed to push the ... Upon his return to Earth, Gagarin was an international hero.
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The Latest: Bill naming John Glenn airport passes in Ohio  May 26, 2016 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) " The Latest on legislation naming an Ohio airport for astronaut John ... John Glenn talks with astronauts on the International Space Station via satellite before a ... a member of NASA's storied Mercury Seven crew that led the U.S. into space. ... He returned to space in 1998, at age 77.
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Biography - John H. Glenn | NASA  John Herschel Glenn, Jr. was born July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. ... On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American .... He would serve in the United State Senate from his home state of Ohio and make a run...