Astronaut Alan Shepard dead at 74.
ALAN B. SHEPARD JR., the first U.S. astronaut to fly into space, died Tuesday night at 74. He had leukemia. On May 5, 1961, Shepard rode a modified Redstone rocket on a 15-minute suborbital flight that took him to an altitude of 116 miles before splashing down in the Atlantic.
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