Among them, Charlie Duke, the youngest moonwalker, just returned to Admiral Farragut Academy for its alumni ... a year after his fellow Farragut alumni Alan Shepard made his own historic trip.

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 ...