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. ( 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.

His adopted son, Kevin Shepard, attended Selleck's alma mater, the University of Southern California, and became an All-American in 1990.

In January 1974, he became Chief of the Astronaut Office after the retirement of Alan Shepard.

At the Sculpture Centre, he met American artist Tim Shepard who had been invited to use studio space there, and the two became friends.

Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell eventually became the fifth and sixth, respectively, on the Apollo 14 mission.

He was a principal figure among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather ( who became his son-in-law ), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard and John Norton, who wrote his first biography.

Shepard then became an independent producer, wrote, narrated and produced The WQXR / MCA Classics Listener's Guide ( 1988 ; music appreciation recordings ) and has lectured on musical theatre and classical music.

Lucius Shepard has won several awards for his science fiction: in 1985 he won John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, followed in 1986 with a best novella Nebula Award for his story " R & R ", which later became part of his 1987 novel Life During Wartime.

His brother, Shepard Alonzo Mount ( 1804 – 1868 ), also an artist, best known as a portrait painter, became a National Academician in 1842.

* May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.

Shepard also purchased a second Boston station, WAAB, which became an affiliate of the Mutual Radio Network in 1935.

The very first single he produced, " Seven Lonely Days ", became a Billboard Top-20 Country single for Jean Shepard in 1969.

Fell and Burritt Hamilton donated additional land, and the combined property, which became known as Leila Arboretum, was designed and developed by T. Clifton Shepard between 1924 and 1930.

Fox News does produce some news coverage carried by the broadcast network, usually separate from the coverage aired on the cable channel, as Fox Report and Studio B anchor Shepard Smith anchors most primetime news presentations on the Fox network, especially during political news events ( which are anchored by Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel ).

The Goose-Step is a political cartoon by E. H. Shepard, drawn in 1936.

* BBC science show, Bang Goes the Theory, explains the Shepard Tone

He was succeeded by James Turner, who expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Shea and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works.

* Lucius Shepard, science fiction and fantasy writer

*" Salvador " ( story ), a science fiction short story by Lucius Shepard

* Authors Bill Palmini, Bob Grandinetti and science fiction writer Lucius Shepard have written about the FTRA, as well as William T. Vollmann, most notably in his book on freighthopping, Riding Toward Everywhere

* In 1998 after the kidnapping and murder of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming college student, the major American news networks would occasionally mention that the student's parents lived in Dhahran and worked for Saudi Aramco.

In fact, since he was the only major prince in Rus not descended from Yaroslav, he was, according to Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard, " an outsider from within "

Many of the major playwrights from the mid-century continued to produce new works, but were joined by names like Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Romulus Linney, David Rabe, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, and John Guare.

In the late 1990s, she had major dance hits with the songs " In a Dream ," " When I'm Gone ," and " Can't We Try " ( a duet with Collage and remake of the Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard 1987 hit song ).

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

* The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) ( illustrated by E. H. Shepard )

Having shown some promise in drawing at St Paul's School, Shepard enrolled in Heatherleys School of Fine Art in Chelsea.

Shepard lived at Lodsworth in West Sussex.

* Biography of E. H. Shepard at classicpooh. net

* 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

In 1950, David H. Shepard, a cryptanalyst at the Armed Forces Security Agency in the United States, addressed the problem of converting printed messages into machine language for computer processing and built a machine to do this, called " Gismo .".

Shepard had predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time.

Black Emperor used the Shepard tone at various points in their 1997 album F ♯ A ♯ ∞.

* October 10, 1906: Cleveland, Ohio Harry Smith shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Mary Shepard at South Euclid School after she had rejected him.

Ten years later, at age 47 the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the lander to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions.

* Obituary, NY Times, July 23, 1998 " Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74 ; First American to Travel in Space "

Matthew Wayne Shepard ( December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998 ) was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, Wyoming, U. S. A., in October 1998.

The Shepard Point Land Company was established to construct a deep water port to allow another access point for North Carolina timber products to relieve pressure at the port located in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The city was mentioned in worldwide news coverage in 1998 after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming.

* Author and activst Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in 1998, was raised in Glenrock.

McQueen checked into a Juarez clinic under the assumed name of " Sam Shepard " where the doctors and staff at the small, low-income clinic were unaware of his real identity.

He wrote music for theater, such as plays written by Sam Shepard, presented at La Mama E. T. C.

When the exhibit opened at a gallery on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus on September 15, 2005, university chancellor Bruce Shepard directed the removal of Brandtner's work from the gallery.

Stephen Rea's friendship with American playwright and actor Sam Shepard dates back to the early 1970s, and he starred in Shepard's directorial debut of his play " Geography of a Horse Dreamer " at the Royal Court Theatre in 1974.

His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory at Stanford and he briefly studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and María Irene Fornés.

It was for example seen in 1998 at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a victim of anti-gay violence, when Fred Phelps and his followers chanted it in front of the gathering.