Who is Alan Shepard and what did he do?

Answer 1

Alan Shepard was the first American in space

Answer 2

Alan Shepard was an American astronaut and the first American in space. He made the historic suborbital flight on May 5, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Freedom 7 as part of NASA's Mercury program. Shepard later went on to become the fifth person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.