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...best proof of history are its survivors, and just as a war shrinks in a nation's rear-view mirror as its veterans pass on, the early, headiest days of the Space Age have just gotten a little more remote: Alan B. Shepard, the first American into space, is dead. Though two of those original Mercury seven astronauts have fallen before him, the ebullient, iconoclastic Shepard is the first to go gently, of Nature, of old age. That is not an excuse to begin forgetting...
...biggest Jose Jimenez fan you ever saw? Alan Shepard, (not to be confused with Sam Shepard, who plays a great Yeager in this one) and you're looking at him. Scott Glenn does the old pioneer justice in all his guts, grace and flinty humor. From his lips we get one of space's first slogans -- "everything is AOK" -- and some lesser-known launchpad gems, namely "Dear Lord, please don't let me f--- this...
WASHINGTON: Another of the high-flying seven has fallen. Alan Shepard, who in 1961 became the first American in space and, a decade after that, perhaps rescued the space program from oblivion, died Tuesday night at age 74. "There are few people with a more exalted place in the pantheon," says TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger. "He was the first. But even more remarkable was his second trip." After 10 years on the ground with ear trouble, Shepard was 47 in 1971 when, with very little training, he took the Apollo 14 lunar module back up -- and spent 33 hours...
...Tuesday Al Shepard was old enough. The original seven are now down to four. America's heady days of giant leaps are receding into the past, their passing marked by the deaths of her pioneers. Alan Shepard's rank in that history is that of legend...
WASHINGTON: These economic salad days have made Alan Greenspan a soldier in peacetime: The toughest part of his job is convincing the citizenry that no matter how good things look, the inflationary barbarians are never far from the gate. "The potential for accelerating inflation is probably greater than the risk of protracted, excessive weakness in the economy," Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday -- despite the ongoing trouble in Asia and economists' reports of a resulting slowdown in the U.S. economy over the past few months...