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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...
...Shepard and his six fellow astronauts refused to make some fast bucks by endorsing products that ranged from watches to electric trains. They also declined invitations for public parades in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Norfolk and Los Angeles. Explained Shepard: "We want to get back to work...
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...
...White House last week, Alan Shepard privately urged upon President Kennedy just such an emphasis. He and his fellow astronauts this week will be climbing back into their silvery suits to work toward a new U.S. goal: a manned flight around the moon by at least...
Since the days of ancient Athens, a brave act has deserved a proud and artistic medal-everywhere but in the U.S. Last week when President Kennedy honored the country's first astronaut, all he had to pin on the lapel of Commander Alan Shepard was something that looked as if it might have come out of a Cracker Jack box. The Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space