【美国人物志】阿朗·谢巴德 (7/8)
阿朗·谢巴德，美国宇航员，他在1961年5月5日的一次15分钟飞行中，成为第一个进入太空的美国人。Hints:
President John F. Kennedy
Alan Shepard
Apollo
inner-ear
NASA
Stuart Roosa
Edgar Mitchell
Mission Control
Houston
one-sixth
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201203/201203200849067188761.mp3The flight was a complete success. Three weeks later, President John F. Kennedy declared a new goal for the United States. He called for "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s.
In July of 1969 that goal came true. Alan Shepard was not on that first Apollo moon flight. In fact, he almost never made it to the moon. He developed a disorder in his inner-ear. It kept him from spaceflight for a number of years. Finally, an operation cured his problem. NASA named Shepard to command Apollo 14. The flight was launched at the end of January, 1971. Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell were the other members of the crew.
Roosa orbited the moon while Shepard and Mitchell landed on the surface. They collected rocks and soil. Shepard also did something else. He played golf. He hit two small golf balls. It was not easy. Shepard was dressed in a big spacesuit. He described his difficulty to Mission Control in Houston.
When Shepard did hit the golf balls, they traveled "for miles and miles," as he reported, because the gravity on the moon is one-sixth of the gravity on Earth.
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