How first American in space brought a newspaper to the moon
MARA BELLABY, Florida Today
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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 and arranged the paper’s out-of-this-world trip.
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