it is time now for the good stuff. the daughter of the first american astronaut alan shepard will follow her father s footsteps when on december 9th, she and five other passengers arrived aboard the new shepherd rocket and capsule named after her father that is laura shepard churchly, she will be heading to space on the new blue shepherd mission, her father alan shepard the first man in space, the american man in space, the fifth to walk on the moon. he hit a golf ball into space and laura churchly is only going to be in space or near space for ten minutes and very curious if she ll try to do something athletic while she s up there in the ten minutes to honor what her father did. she s going to take her father s naval academy ring with her to space, which has already been up three times. i guess alan shepard took it up the first time when he went to space for a few minutes.