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...rewards of fame were heaped upon Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. last week. In Washington, where crowds lined the historic parade route between the White House and the Capitol, the President pinned the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal on Shepard's chest. At Grand Bahama Island, where Shepard was debriefed after his ride, an airport was to be named after him. At New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, an earth-bound spaceship was renamed the Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. Rocket Ride...
Within the next few months, there will be three or four more suborbital manned space shots using the Redstone rocket that sent Shepard into space. But it is not the Redstone that will first take a U.S. astronaut into orbit around the planet...
Tests & Torture. Painstaking as they were, all the preparations for trouble could not compare with the planning that had gone into the training of the astronaut himself. One of seven volunteers chosen in April 1959 from a list of no military test pilots, Shepard had been in rigorous discipline ever since. He took physical tests that most doctors have no need for. His blood was analyzed in a dozen different ways; the functioning of his various organs-heart, lungs, spleen, stomach, eyes, etc.-were tested over and over. He traveled out to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to have his body...
...that her husband was safe. She had been resigned to the ordeal ever since he put in for space-flight training. The day that he got his orders to join Project Mercury, Christian Scientist Alan Shepard had a serious talk with his wife, harping on the security that an astronaut could never have. Louise listened for a while and said: "What are you bothering to ask me for? You know you'll do it anyway...
Baby Step. But even with the hero out of sight, the voluntary hero-making mechanisms of the U.S. worked at full blast. A newly built school in Deerfield, Ill., was named for Shepard. A greeting card went on sale in Boston for admirers to send to the astronaut. Mayor Wagner of New York promised him the greatest ticker-tape welcome in New York's littered history. Mayor Poulson of Los Angeles immediately tried to outbid Wagner. A bar in Fort Wayne, Ind., treated its customers to champagne. Senators, judges, professors and generals burst into praise for Shepard. Said First...