Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.

Definitions of Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
  1. noun
    astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
    synonyms: Alan Shepard, Shepard
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    astronaut, cosmonaut, spaceman
    a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
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