[DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard: First American in Space - Space.com [PAR] May 5, 2014 ... He later went to the moon on Apollo 14. ... NASA astronaut Alan Shepard 
became the first American in space on May 5, 1961 aboard .... After a struggle 
with leukemia, Shepard passed away on July 21, 1998, at the age of 74. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Wikipedia [PAR] Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923  July 21, 1998) 
was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, ... He became the second 
person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the ... Ten years later, at 
age 47 and the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard commanded the Apollo 
14... [DOC] [TLE] Another Moonwalker Gone: Apollo 14 Astronaut Ed Mitchell Has ... [PAR] Feb 5, 2016 ... Fellow Apollo 14 astronaut (and first American in space) Al Shepard died in 1998 
at the age of 74; CM pilot Stu Roosa passed away in 1994 at... [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Astronaut - Biography.com [PAR] Dec 11, 2014 ... He later commanded the Apollo 14 flight (1971), the first to land in the lunar 
highlands. ... He became the first American in space, a month after the Soviet ... 
Shepard died in California in 1998, after a long battle with leukemia. [DOC] [TLE] Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74; First American to Travel in Space ... [PAR] Jul 23, 1998 ... By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD JULY 23, 1998 ... Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first 
American to fly in space, lifting national ... 31, 1971, he took off for the Moon in 
Apollo 14, the first lunar mission since the near-disaster of Apollo 13 the year 
before. ... Mr. Shepard was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts... [DOC] [TLE] NASA - Alan Shepard, First American Astronaut, Dies at 74 [PAR] July 22, 1998 ... Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American to fly in space and one of 
only 12 humans who walked on the Moon, ... Shepard died at Community 
Hospital on the Monterey Peninsula, according to his family. ... An operation 
eventually cured the problem and Shepard was named to command the Apollo 
14 mission. [DOC] [TLE] Who Was Alan Shepard? | NASA [PAR] Astronaut Alan Shepard was the first American in space. ... Stuart Roosa and 
Edgar Mitchell were on Apollo 14, too. The Apollo spacecraft ... He died in 1998. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard: First American in Space - Armagh Planetarium [PAR] May 4, 2011 ... The first American in space, Alan Shepard, made his historic flight as ... Following 
Apollo 14 Shepard returned to his position as chief of the Astronaut Office in ... 
Alan Shepard passed away after illness on 21 July 1998 which... [DOC] [TLE] Apollo 14's Edgar Mitchell passes away at age 85 - SpaceFlight ... [PAR] Feb 6, 2016 ... Apollo 14 astronaut and Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell has passed ... His time in 
space totaled nine days and one minute  9 hours and 23 ... Jr. (who passed in 
July of 1998) and Stuart A. Roosa (who died in Dec. ... On January 31, 1971, 
Commander Alan Shepard--the first American in space, Command... [DOC] [TLE] Biography of Astronaut Alan Shepard | Actforlibraries.org [PAR] Biography of Astronaut Alan Shepard. Alan Bartlett Shepard (1923-1998) was a 
pilot in the U.S. Navy, the first American astronaut in space, and the commander 
of the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon. ... He died of leukemia in California in 1998. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Wikiquote [PAR] NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin  reported in Mark Carreau (July 23, 1998) "
Alan Shepard, first American in space, is dead at 74 - Space Age pioneer... [DOC] [TLE] Focus: The 55th anniversary of the first American astronaut in space ... [PAR] May 5, 2016 ... Mercury was America's first human space flight program. It conducted 20 ... 
Shepard was also part of the Apollo 14 crew and is one of 12 astronauts to have 
walked on the moon

Question: This Apollo 14 astronaut & first American in space passed away in 1998
Answer: Alan Shepard