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———. “Subject: Alan Shepard,” file number 62–106995, Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Note: the FBI conducted an extensive background investigation on Shepard in 1971, at a time when he was under consideration for a presidential appointment. The results of that investigation, along with a 1967 background investigation by the Civil Service Commission—more than 400 pages in all—were obtained by the author through the FBI’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts.)
As a boy in New Hampshire, Shepard had what his mother called “boundless energy”- so much so that his elementary school teachers advised that he skip ahead two grades, which ever after made him the youngest in his class. (Courtesy of the Shepard family)
Shepard (shown here on graduation day with father, Bart, and sister, Polly) claimed he “never really hit my stride” until his final year at the U.S. Naval Academy. (Courtesy of the Shepard family)
Shepard was relentless in his pursuit of the beautiful Louise Brewer, pictured here at his Ring Dance at the Naval Academy. (Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy).
Wedding day: March 3, 1945, during Shepard’s brief hiatus from serving aboard a destroyer in World War II. The marriage would not be a perfect one, but it—and their love for one another—would last more than fifty years. (Courtesy of NASA)
More than anything, Shepard loved to fly. And, as one fellow test pilot said, “He could fly anything.” Left, at Muroc Airfield (later named Edwards Air Force Base) and, below, in a T-38 NASA jet. (Courtesy of the Shepard family and NASA)
Shepard took the illicit practice of “flat-hatting” (flying lower and faster than Navy rules allowed) to new lows; he once flew beneath a bridge, above a crowded beach, and over a parade field of Navy officers—and came dangerously close to a court martial. Above, in an F-106 Air Force jet. (Courtesy of NASA)
The Shepard family—Alan, Louise, their two daughters, and the niece they raised as their own daughter—captured by Life magazine at home in Virginia Beach. (Courtesy of the Shepard family)
The Mercury Seven during desert survival training in Nevada. From left: Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Shepard, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, and Deke Slayton. (Courtesy of NASA)
Colleagues learned there were two sides to Shepard. One minute, he was an affable jokester; the next, bitterly competitive, to the point of being a “cutthroat”. Above left, goofing at a press conference; above right, after a jog at Cocoa Beach.(Courtesy of Ralph Morse/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Opposite: Shepard once likened the intense competition among the Mercury Seven to “seven guys trying to fly the same airplane.” (Courtesy of NASA)
One journalist called Cocoa Beach-its
jazz clubs, dancs clubs, and its colorful, carnival-like”strip-”a harlot of a town.” Here, the Starlite Motel in 1959, which was run by Holocaust survivor and astronaut pal Henri Landwirth. (Courtesy of the Florida State Archives).
Though he harbored a lifelong disdain for the press, he learned to hone his dealings with reporters, one of whom called him “the cool master of the press conference.” Above, flanked by NASA spokesman Colonel John A. “Shorty” Powers. (Courtesy of Paul Schuster/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Glenn was furious that Shepard had been chosen ahead of him for America’s first manned space launch; each man was like the other’s alter ego. (Courtesy of NASA)
Doctors probed every inch of Shepard’s thirty-seven-year-old body before the launch. (Courtesy of NASA)
Shepard traveled higher and faster than any other American-”the Lindbergh of space,” one newspaper called him. Right, captured by his capsule’s onboard camera during his brief taste of weightlessness. (Courtesy of NASA)
Louise at home, nervously awaiting word that her husband was safe aboard the recovery ship. (Courtesy of Leonard McComb/ Time Life Pictures/ Getty Images)
Shepard being hoisted free of his capsule and into the recovery helicopter. (Courtesy of NASA)
“Boy, what a ride,” Shepard said, as the helicopter delivered him to the USS Lake Champlain, where a cheering crowd of sailors welcomed him back from space. (Courtesy of NASA)
At Grand Bahama Island, Shepard spent three days out of public view, undergoing exhaustive postlaunch briefings and invasive medical exams. Doctors reported he was “in the best of shape, in the best of health, in the best of spirits.” (Courtesy of NASA)
President Kennedy awarding Shepard the Distinguished Service Medal in the Rose Garden. (Courtesy of Joseph Scherschel/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Above left: Shepard reading his fan mail, on the cover of Life magazine. (Courtesy of Ralph Morse/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Above right: One of the largest crowds in Washington history clogged Pennsylvania Avenue for a glimpse of the new astronaut-hero and his wife. “Look at these people,” Vice President Johnson yelled in Shepard’s ear. “They love you.” Johnson later advised Shepard, “If you’re going to be famous, never pass up the opportunity for a free lunch, or to go to the men’s room.” Louise, meanwhile, would never become comfortable with the glow of fame that shone upon her husband and his family. (Courtesy of NASA)
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