claim: From November 1963 to July 1969 Alan Shepard was Chief of the Astronaut Office.
evidence: Vitus `` Veit '' Bach -LRB- around 1550 -- 8 March 1619 , Wechmar -RRB- was a baker and miller who , according to Johann Sebastian Bach , founded the Bach family , which became one of the most important families in Western musical history .. Wechmar. Wechmar. miller. miller. Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach family. Bach family. Veit 's son , -LRB- ca. 1580 -- 1626 -RRB- , was the grandfather of Johann Ambrosius Bach , J.S. Bach 's father , which makes Veit J.S. 's great-great-grandfather .. Johann Ambrosius Bach. Johann Ambrosius Bach. Evading religious persecution in the Kingdom of Hungary , then under the control of the staunchly Roman Catholic Habsburgs , Bach , being a Protestant , settled in Wechmar , a village in the German state of Thuringia .. Wechmar. Wechmar. Kingdom of Hungary. Kingdom of Hungary. Roman Catholic. Roman Catholic. Habsburgs. Habsburgs. Protestant. Protestant. Thuringia. Thuringia. His descendants continued to live there until Christoph Bach , grandfather of J.S. Bach , moved to Erfurt to take up a position as municipal musician or Stadtpfeifer -LRB- town piper -RRB- .. Christoph Bach. Christoph Bach ( musician ). Erfurt. Erfurt. Bach 's son Johannes Bach studied music with the town 's head piper .