of a sudden, you feel your body go like this and you re floating. and then back in a belt and on earth. i m going to sit at work tomorrow and said, i went to space yesterday. it to be floating again. you want more of it. reporter: laura shepherd churchly 12 years old when her father allan shepherd made his historical flight, first american in space. his journey aboard new shepherd, named after her father, was a long time coming and allowed her to experience a little bit of his adventures. way back when in 61, i was grateful that i had been a girl because i don t know how i would have followed in daddy s footsteps. so i finally did it. it was wonderful. the passengers passed the karmen line, international boundary of space and experienced three minutes of weightlessness before making a parachuted landing back on earth.
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president kennedy knew what kind of inspiration and pride he unleashed when he made this promise back in 1961. i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. later that year allan shepherd was the first american to go into space on a 15-minute flight aboard freedom 7. one year later john glenn climbed into friendship 7 and became the first american to orbit the earth circling three times as part of nasa s mercury program and then followed by the gemini program, and the first to establish it was at least possible to get to the moon. but the dawn of the apollo program brought tragedy when gus grissom, and ed white and one
the nose near touchdown and having fired the imagination of a generation and a ship like no other its place in history secured, the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time. we can only wonder if president kennedy knew what kind of inspiration and pride he unleashed when he made this promise back in 1961. i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. later that year allan shepherd was the first american to go into space on a 15-minute flight aboard freedom 7. one year later john glenn climbed into friendship 7 and became the first american to orbit the earth circling three times as part of nasa s mercury program and then followed by the