[DOC] [TLE] Who Was Alan Shepard? | NASA [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Wikipedia [PAR] Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923  July 21, 1998) 
was an ... He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into 
space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. [DOC] [TLE] Who Was Alan Shepard? | NASA [PAR] On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He flew on a Mercury spacecraft. There was just enough room for one person. He named his capsule Freedom 7. [DOC] [TLE] Glenn Orbits the Earth | NASA [PAR] After three years of training, John Glenn rocketed into space aboard the Mercury 
capsule Friendship 7. He became the third American in space and the first to... [DOC] [TLE] Picture Archive: First Seven Astronauts, 1962 [PAR] May 9, 2013 ... On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard (back, far left) made it into spaceand backjust 23 days after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to do so. Less than a year later, John Glenn (front, second from right) became the first American to orbit the Earth. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Astronaut - Biography.com [PAR] Dec 11, 2014 ... He became the first American in space, a month after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri 
Gagarin had earned the distinction as the first person in space. [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 part of ... 
After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1944 he began his... [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard: Classic Photos of the First American in Space | TIME [PAR] May 4, 2014 ... After NASA announced that he was the one tapped for the first space flight, 
Shepard found himself in the heart of an unprecedented media... [DOC] [TLE] Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74; First American to Travel in Space [PAR] Jul 23, 1998 ... Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American to fly in space, lifting national spirits at a ... 
He was 74 and lived in Houston and Pebble Beach, Calif. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard: Complicated, Conflicted and the Consummate ... [PAR] May 5, 2011 ... 50 years ago today, Alan Shepard blasted off on board the first flight of NASA's 
Mercury program, becoming the first American in space. ... Shepard was the 
consummate astronaut,  he stayed with NASA for over 15 years,... [DOC] [TLE] This date in science: First American in space | Science Wire | EarthSky [PAR] May 5, 2016 ... Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961. ... later, NASA 
astronaut Alan Shepard flew aboard a Mercury spacecraft he... [DOC] [TLE] Why Alan Shepard Had to Pee In His Space Suit [PAR] Aug 19, 2013 ... that's what he heard back from the ground control center after inquiring ... Alan 
Shepard, the first American in space had to urinate into his suit. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard, first American in space - Sen.com [PAR] Alan Shepard was America's first man in space and the second human being to 
fly in ... Shepard had a near 10 year wait before he would fly in space again. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard, First American Astronaut in Space: 50th Anniversary ... [PAR] May 5, 2011 ... Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury 
capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ship Freedom 7... [DOC] [TLE] John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth | HistoryNet [PAR] People still ask him what it felt like to be the first American to orbit the earth. ... 
With the Soviets having the rocket power to propel a satellite into space, he... [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Wikiquote [PAR] ... USN, Ret.) was the second person and the first American in space. He later 
commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon. [DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 5 | 1961: Shepard becomes first US astronaut [PAR] ... Mercury 3 capsule

Question: He was the first American in space
Answer: Alan Shepard