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“I’m very proud of my father’s legacy. I believe he would say the same thing as my children: go for it!” Laura Shepard said.

Letters from the community about disrespectful flags and heating our homes.

How first American in space brought a newspaper to the moon MARA BELLABY, Florida Today FacebookTwitterEmail MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — When the 363-foot Saturn V rocket ignited its five engines to send the crew of Apollo 14 — including America’s first man in space, Alan Shepard — on their lunar mission, something rather unusual was on board. TODAY, founded by Al Neuharth just five years earlier, was going to the moon. “It was a big deal but shoot, this was TODAY newspaper, we can do anything,” recalled David Baker, whose father, Buddy Baker, was TODAY’s community service director a...

A space-themed playground will be added to the Gazebo Park behind the Claremore Museum of History.

The roots of Stuart A. Roosa’s legacy run deep in Claremore. With a street and school named after him, his legacy continues in the form of a tree.