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Author Description Astronaut <b>Alan Bartlett Shepard</b>, Junior, the first American in space on 5 May 1961, also commanded the mission of Apollo 14 to the Moon in 1971. <br /><br />This retired rear admiral in the Navy of the United States, an aviator, the second person. Ten years later, he, the fifth such person, walked. <br /><br />People original named him for Mercury in 1959. After <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/690500.Yuri_Alekseyevich_Gagarin" title="Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin" rel="nofollow noopener">Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin</a>, he the second such person, reached 116 miles of altitude during a suborbital flight. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24298766.Prosper_M_ni_re" title="Prosper Ménière" rel="nofollow noopener">Prosper Ménière</a>'s disease, an inner ear condition, grounded him until an operation in 1969 fixed the problem. During the third lunar exploration from 31 January to 9 February 1971, he, the first and only such man, golfed. <br /><br />Two years after diagnosis with leukemia, he died. <br />

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