Editing Alan Shepard (section)

==External links==
{{Commons category|Alan Shepard}}
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/23094/alan-shepard-1st-american-in-space |title=Alan Shepard: 1st American in Space |access-date=May 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527185932/http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/23094/alan-shepard-1st-american-in-space |archive-date=May 27, 2010 }} – slideshow by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine
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* {{C-SPAN|36129}}
* {{cite web |url = https://www.c-span.org/video/?182237-1/light-candle-alan-shepard |title=Presentation by Neal Thompson on ''Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard'' |date=May 26, 2004 |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] |access-date=August 21, 2017 }}
* {{cite video |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?291540-1/alan-shepard-oral-history-interview |title=Oral history interview with Shepard for the Johnson Space Center's History Office, February 20, 1998}}
* {{cite video |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?109134-1/reaction-death-alan-shepard |title=Remarks by Sen. John Glenn on the death of Alan Shepard, July 22, 1998 |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] }}
* {{cite video |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?109504-1/alan-shepard-memorial-service |title=Alan Shepard Memorial Service, August 1, 1998 |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] }}
* {{cite web|title= Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN, Biography and Interview |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/achiever/admiral-alan-shepard-jr/}}

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