Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agonizing minutes after Freedom 7's takeoff. President Kennedy tensely watched his television screen; finally, when word came that Alan Shepard was alive and apparently healthy, the President sighed with relief, smiled, and said: "It's a success.'' That the U.S. had been willing and confident enough to attempt the flight in public view was a fact that could only impress the world. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph, in apt summation of the gamble's payoff: "Technically, the Americans were runners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs. Nobody can doubt that Commander Shepard really...
...blaze of Alan Shepard's Redstone rocket was a bright light on a dark, cold war horizon. It was a first step in John...
...week's end, even more abruptly than it began, the Kennedy criticism was drowned in the thunder of cheers that ac companied Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. on the U.S.'s first successful manned flight into space (see SCIENCE). In the reflected glory of this accomplishment, the beleaguered President could hope to regain some of his lost prestige...
...thump of an electronic timer beat like a pulse across the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral. The pulse of the nation beat with it. For this was no routine rocket shoot. Riding that long, white missile as it soared aloft last week was Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., first U.S. astronaut ever fired into space. And riding with him was his country's pride, the prestige of his country's science, the promise of his country's future on the expanding frontiers of the universe...
...sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch a TV set that had been picked up by police as part of a thief...