* 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

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.

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

* 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.

Shepard went on to found Intelligent Machines Research Corporation ( IMR ), which soon developed the world's first commercial OCR systems.

As a conceptual example of an ascending Shepard scale, the first tone could be an almost inaudible C ( 4 ) ( middle C ) and a loud C ( 5 ) ( an octave higher ).

* Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

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.

In 1959, Shepard was one of 11 military test pilots invited by the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration to volunteer for the first US manned space flight program.

In January 1961, Shepard was chosen for the first American manned mission into space.

Shepard was born in Casper, Wyoming, the first of two sons born to Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard.

Originally scheduled to take place in October 1960, this was postponed several time and on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard made America's first sub-orbital spaceflight.

It is the location of the famed Longwood Gardens conservatory and was the birthplace of Louise Brewer Shepard, the wife of the first American in space, Alan Shepard.

It took 22 years until the first settlers arrived in the area: Ebenezer Sanborn coming from nearby Corinth, founding the " Bradford farm ", and Joseph Thurber from New Hampshire, founding the " Shepard farm ".

* May 5-Alan B. Shepard, the first U. S. astronaut in space aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft in a 15-min.

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

Murtaugh was well aware of the abundance of talent in the system, and asked to reclaim the managing job after Larry Shepard was fired in the last week of the season.

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.

The song ends using a Shepard tone, with a chord progression built on ascending and descending lines in the bass and strings, repeated over and over as the song fades.

Titov orbited the Earth over 17 times, exceeding the single orbit of Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 − as well as the suborbital spaceflights of American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions.

Pattison won and ousted CEO Jim Shepherd over Canfor's poor performance and declining share price, which saw Jim Shepard appointed as interim CEO.

The documentary includes interviews with over 30 cast and crew from the first three " Return of the Living Dead " films, including Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, Jewel Shepard, John Philbin, Brian Peck, Linnea Quigley, Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., James Karen, Clu Gulager, Don Calfa, Allan Trautman, Stacey Q, William Stout, Suzanne Snyder, Michael kenworthy, J. Trevor Edmond, Brian Yuzna and more.

First conducted in the 1950s by Knox professor Paul Shepard, the burn protects prairie grasses from intrusions of woodland scrub and competition with " exotic " species that have been introduced to Illinois from other regions or countries — to the detriment of organisms that have evolved over millions of years in delicate balance with the environment and each other.

On GMTV with an interview with Ben Shepard Sam and Amanda stated that they made over £ 1, 000, 000 between them.

The man assigned to coordinate the hunt is the Admiralty's chief of operations, Captain Jonathan Shepard ( Kenneth More ), who has been distraught over the death of his wife in an air raid and the sinking of his ship by German ships commanded by Admiral Günther Lütjens ( Karel Štěpánek ).

Crosby's character, Kristin Shepard, later crossed over to the TV series Knots Landing in the 1980-81 season.

When he went back to his hometown, he took over his father's business, making quite a bit of money, but the lives of the Artusi family were permanently disrupted by the arrival in Forlimpopoli on January 25, 1851 of the outlaw Stefano Pelloni, nicknamed the Shepard.

In season four, he has a steady, serious relationship with Army CID agent Lt. Col. Hollis Mann, but their relationship is revealed to be over at the beginning of season five, when Shepard reads a brief announcement in a military newsletter that Mann is retiring to Hawaii.

The Shepard murder was approaching its first anniversary and as such was getting another round of national attention coupled with updates on pending hate crime legislation.

Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne but are immediately called back to base camp due to an approaching storm.

Shepard then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before settling in Denver, Colorado.

By the early 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a land development project known as the " Shepard Point Land Company " which purchased of land on the eastern tip of the peninsula bordering the Newport River known then as " Shepards Point " which is the present day location of Morehead City, North Carolina.

The first manned space flights were made in early 1961, first by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and then by American astronaut Alan Shepard.

Their mere announcement spelled the end, as Shepard was then forced to admit that the Hodag was a hoax.

Shepard withdrew his force, which had grown to some 800 men ( to the Regulators ' 1, 200 ), to the federal armory, which was then only rumored to be the target of seizure by the activists.

In the early 1880s, he helped his close friend Edward Morse Shepard organize the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brooklyn, took a part in the 1892 presidential campaign on behalf of Grover Cleveland, supported the Gold Democrats against William Jennings Bryan in 1896, then switched to more moderate monetary reform as a member of the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Convention in 1897.

Shepard and Metzler proposed that if we decomposed and then mentally re-imaged the objects into basic mathematical propositions, as the then-dominant view of cognition " as a serial digital computer " assumed, then it would be expected that the time it took to determine whether the object was the same or not would be independent of how much the object was rotated.

Shepard and Metzler ’ s experiment consisted of showing a group of subjects a 2-D line drawing of a 3-D object, and then that same object at some rotation.

According to Shepard and Metzler, if Pylyshyn were correct, then the amount of time it took to identify the object as the same object would not depend on the degree of rotation of the object.

The mission was to be flown by Alan Shepard, the backup pilot for MA-9, then in preparation, and previously the pilot of the MR-3 suborbital mission in 1961.

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.

The film also features interviews with Helms ' foes and fans, community activists, novelists Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, openly gay Carrboro mayor Mike Nelson, and people in the street, including a brief interview with Matthew Shepard, then a student at Catawba College.

In Chris O ' Dell's 2009 autobiography Miss O ' Dell she details an affair she had with married playwright Sam Shepard and states that Shepard then cheated on her with Joni Mitchell.

For the next five years Woodruff was virtually the sole director of Shepard's work, staging the American premiere of Curse of the Starving Class at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978, the world premieres of Buried Child ( 1978 ) and True West ( 1980 ) at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and then in New York, and the touring productions of Tongues and Savage / Love, which Shepard co-authored with the performer Joseph Chaikin.

" He later tells NCIS Director Jenny Shepard that he is working on his fourth boat, and that he named one of the previous boats after his ( then current ) wife when he finished it, then burned it after their divorce.

Exposed, Chip threatened her with a knife ; she promptly subdued him, hog-tied him with duct tape, and insisted on being allowed to work alone from then on, something Jenny Shepard agreed to.