Shepard, a couple of weeks before his first spaceflight in May 1961. NASA It was Wernher von Braun who kept Alan Shepard from ... At Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, he had helped ...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard made history ... Kennedy on May 8, 1961, when he was back on solid ground. Shepard was a graduate of Pinkerton Academy, and local historians say his story is an ...