Name: Shepard, Alan Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 2

Space Flights Launch Date - Rocket No. Landing Date - Rocket No.
1. Freedom 7 May 3, 1961 - Redstone 7 May 3, 1961 - Redstone 7
2. Apollo 14 January 31, 1971 - AS-509 February 9, 1971 - AS-509

Space Flights Descriptions
Mercury-Redstone 3A
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew
The first manned flight of the Redstone launch vehicle was delayed for an additional test flight (MR-BD) after problems with the Redstone launch vehicle developed during the MR-2 test flight.
1. Freedom 7
(Mercury-Redstone 3)
First American in space
Mercury-Redstone 3 used Spacecraft 7 (Freedom 7)
Mercury-Atlas 9A
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew
Mercury-Atlas 9A originally would have used Spacecraft-19 in a 4th short flight before NASA decided to change to the longer one-day flight of Mercury-Atlas 9 with Spacecraft-20.
Faith 7
(Mercury-Atlas 9)
Backup Pilot for Faith 7
Mercury-Atlas 9 used Spacecraft-20 (Faith 7)
Mercury-Atlas 10
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew
Mercury-Atlas 10 would have been used Spacecraft 15B (Freedom-7 II) in the second one-day flight. It was cancelled to allow NASA to concentrate on the Gemini program, which was behind schedule and over budget.
2. Apollo 14 Manned lunar landing at the Fra Mauro area - February 5, 1971
Lunar Lift Off - February 6, 1971
Command Module - Kitty Hawk (CSM-110)
Lunar Module - Antares (LM-8)
Moonwalker

Spacewalks - 2
Space Flights Date & Duration Purpose
Apollo 14 February 5, 1971 Advanced Lunar Scientific Experiment Package deployment
4 hours 49 minutes
Apollo 14 February 6, 1971 Geological traverse to rim of Cone Crater
4 hours 46 minutes

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Updated - June 10, 2006