Sixty years ago today, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The capsule was named Freedom 7, in honor of the seven astronauts selected for the Mercury space project.
In 1971 he piloted the Apollo 14 mission, and became the fifth human to walk on the surface of the moon. The rocket pictured on my tie is a Saturn model, used for the Apollo moon missions.
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