Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
-- Alan Shepard
   
Alan Shepard   Name:
Alan Shepard
Type:
Astronaut
Nationality:
American
Birth:
November 18, 1923
Death:
July 21, 1998
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