In his youth, Bolden was not inspired by the example of Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, or even Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to become an astronaut, although he was "really impressed" by what they ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the ... The US managed to shoot a human – Alan Shepard, who later went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then ...

Alan Shepard entered the history books by being the first American in space. And while his launch was overshadowed by that of Yuri Gagarin - which beat his by only a few weeks - his career ...