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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to carry secret government payload into orbit.
Patrick Rowan’s Skywatch: Recalling pioneers of spaceflight Today 5:06 AM Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., posing here in his Mercury flight suit, was born in New Hampshire in 1923. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944, he served in World War II and became a Navy test pilot. His May 5, 1961, launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital mission was the first U.S. manned spaceflight. (NASA photo) Facebook Share With the surprising award last month to SpaceX to land the first humans on the moon in half a century, NASA’s moon plan is suddenly very hard to ignore.