Showing posts with label pilot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pilot. Show all posts
Friday, August 20, 2010
Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was an American naval aviator and astronaut who become the second person, and the first American, in space. Ten years later, he command the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth human being to walk on the Moon. In 1950, he attend the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland. After graduation, he participated in flight test work which included
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a past astronaut; test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first human to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was on board Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of the first U.S. civilians to fly in space and the first civilian in
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