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Londonderry NH net (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Happy Birthday Alan Shepard! The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, New Hampshire is celebrating with birthday cake today November 18th 2009. Londonderry Hometown Online News is celebrating with a new featured Author. A partner with our parent company ImageAbility Inc. providing historic images for restoration, imaging and display in public and private [...]
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... marketer today in 2005? Yesterday's Answers: 1. First Battle of the Somme; 2. Anita Dobson; 3. Alan Shepard
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... Gilbert (1836-1911), conductor Eugene Ormandy (1899-1985) and composer Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) Alan Shepard (1923-1998): the first American in space Margaret Atwood (70): author of The Blind Assassin and The Year of the Flood Wilma Mankiller (64): first female chief of the Cherokee Nation Warren Moon (53): NFL hall-of-famer; athletes Gary Sheffield (41) and David Ortiz (34) share...
Space.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... missile had experienced a series of launch pad explosions.He was "Convair's ," Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton wrote in "Moon Shot" in 1994.Astronauts remember O'Malley's contributions to the success of the U.S. space program."He was a hard-driving, honest, straight-up, go-for-broke guy, and he really made things hum down here," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden said...
BelchSpeak (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... your balls on the fairway or invest in a stock of biodegradable balls.” Yeah those golf balls Alan Shepard hit on the moon are killing all of the lunar wildlife. I dare you eco-hippies to complain to a golfer in the face about his impact on the environment. Especially when he’s holding a 4 iron. Spread the Word!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Golf on the moon, when Halloween bats attack in the NBA (and summary justice is meted out) and streaking also star this week 1) Nascar driver Ryan Newman gets incredibly lucky in escaping this horror crash relatively unharmed last weekend. 2) Karaoke duet shame of the week: Kano and ... Rio Ferdinand? 3) Golf on the moon : Alan Shepard shanks his opening effort and then - Tiger eat your...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... a tremendous endorsement of our academic program and our outstanding students and faculty,' said Alan Shepard, Provost and Vice President Academic. 'His innovation, creativity and passion for city-building make him a perfect fit here, and we warmly welcome him to the Ryerson family.''I have been very impressed with the faculty in Ryerson's Department of Architectural Science, and...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
There are no aliens in these stories from NASA and the Soviet space program, just true tales of how being an astronaut is no picnic. Decompression? Landing in the wrong place? Using the toilet without a toilet? Not pleasant! On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard wet his pants aboard Freedom 7, but Apollo bathroom facilities would [...]
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... The pinnacle of manned space oddities may be one of the first. On May 5, 1962, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard — one of the original seven Mercury spaceflyers — was ready to become the . Clad in a bright silver spacesuit, he climbed into his capsule Freedom 7 and engineers bolted the hatch shut behind him. The launch was delayed over and over, and then he had to pee. Shepard, who...
