On February 5, 1971, two Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon! Discover more space history 👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/A5JKDK Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard and the lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell left their crewmate Stuart Roosa in the command module and descended down to the moon in the lunar module Antares. Their descent was a little chaotic. A faulty switch was sending "abort" signals to the landing module's computer, and NASA had to reprogram the computer before they could land

Do you know who was the first American astronaut to travel into space? On #ThisDayInHistory in 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr., became the first American astronaut to travel into space. His suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes, was a major triumph for NASA. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-american-in-space | HISTORY

“What a beautiful view.” Alan Shepard became the first American in space 60 years ago today (May 5, 1961) when Freedom 7 lifted off atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. The 15-minute flight gave us valuable data on how humans respond to microgravity, and set us on a path toward having a continuous human presence in space with the construction of the International Space Station decades later: youtu.be/YMptAi6Z8io | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration