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“If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”

Quote by Alan Shepard

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Alan Shepard, born on November 18, 1923 and died on July 21, 1998, was a United States naval aviator. He was a key figure in the American space program and the first American to travel into space. Shepard served with distinction in the United States Navy, and his contributions to space exploration have made him a renowned figure. more

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