Shepard • Roosa • Mitchell

Ten years after becoming the first American in space, Alan Shepard reached the Moon on Apollo 14 less than a year after Apollo 13's "successful failure." With Ed Mitchell and a two-wheeled modular equipment transporter for carrying tools and instruments, he spent more time exploring the lunar surface, traveled farther from the lunar module, and collected more samples and scientific data than previous missions. Shepard also became the first man to swat a golf ball on the Moon. His flight capped a fruitful relationship with Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center: in 1961 Marshall's Redstone rocket carried him into space, and in 1971 Marshall's Saturn V enabled him to become the only one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts to set foot on the Moon.

Huntsville, Alabama · United States