NOUN
- astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
How To Use Alan Shepard In A Sentence
- A Morse shot of Alan Shepard ran on Life's cover in May 1961, when Shepard's suborbital flight made him America's first man in space. David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age