alan shepard

Everyone today knows the name of the first man to leave the Earth and journey into space. US Navy Commander Alan Shepard was launched into space on May the 5th 1961 aboard Freedom 7 which was the first manned mission of the Project Mercury programme. The name Alan Shepard is one of the most...

Suppose that Alan Shepard became the first man in space in March 24th of 1961 but Yuri Gagarin overshadows him by being the first to go into orbit on April 12nd. Would the nicknames like "Columbus of the Cosmos" or "Columbus of the space age" still goes to Gagarin, or would he received other...

In an alternative timeline/parallel universe where Alan Shepard is the first human to go to space when his spaceship lifted off into a suborbital flight in 24 March 1961 but was overshadowed by Gagarin's orbital feat in 12 April, is it remotely possible that no asteroids and/or lunar craters...

Hi, I'm aware that if NASA has overruled von Braun's delay in wake of Mercury-Redstone 2 (Ham the Chimp's flight) whose booster got some problems, astronaut Alan Shepard would have became the first man in space instead though Yuri Gagarin would overshadow Shepard's with an orbital flight, making...