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Shepard Faces First Space Flight Challenge as Navy Pilot
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr 37 chosen to be the first American in space describes his life as a sequence of challenges He volunteers for the hazardous mission saying the flight is a challenge and the first flight will be the severe one His wife Louise notes he seeks challenges He has 3700 hours flight time 1900 jets and has prepared by training in astro nautics physics fuels and meteorology He was born November 18 1923 in East Derry New Hampshire and is a Naval Academy graduate and test pilot His family adapts to his risk taking while his children Julie ana 9 and Laura 13 share their mother's calm schoolmates say he is ready for space flight.
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