A total of 15 Moon walks were performed by members of six Apollo crews, including Charles " Pete " Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene " Gene " Cernan and Dr. Harrison " Jack " Schmitt.

* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.

* 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

In the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space and the second person following Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union who flew one month earlier.

* Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr., USN ( 1923 – 1998 ); first American in space, May 1961

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

* 1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut ( d. 1998 )

Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

Alan Shepard

** Alan Shepard, American astronaut ( b. 1923 )

* May 5 – Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.

* January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 ( carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell ) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.

* November 18 – Alan Shepard, first American astronaut ( d. 1998 )

In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.

* In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Grissom was ranked as the # 9 ( tied with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard ) most popular space hero.

The second manned spacecraft was named Freedom 7, and it performed a sub-orbital spaceflight in 1961 carrying American astronaut Alan Shepard to an altitude of just over.

It also included a NASA Exhibit that included models and mockups of various satellites, as well as the Project Mercury capsule that had carried Alan Shepard into space.

* Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

* 1961-US, a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 with Alan B. Shepard, spacecraft was launched by a Redstone rocket on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight.

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. ( November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998 ) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1949 – Alan Campbell, Irish pastor

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

* 1970 – Alan Shearer, English footballer

Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

* 1925 – Alan Whicker, English journalist and broadcaster

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* Bowman, Alan K. The Cambridge Ancient History: The High Empire, A. D. 70 – 192.

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1978 – Alan Maybury, Irish footballer

* Personal Dynamic Media – By Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg

* 1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer

* 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2007 )

* 1982 – Alan Halsall, English actor

* 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer ( b. 1925 )

* 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1942 – Alan Price, English musician ( The Animals )

* 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer

* 1962 – Alan Muraoka, American actor

* 1986 – Alan Rouse, English mountaineer ( b. 1951 )