Early Space Explorer Shepard Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	42%	14		Alan Shepard was the first American to be launched into space under this program
	noun • a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth
	36%	7		Title of a play by Sam Shepard
	noun • United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943) • astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

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New York Times Bonus01 Oct 1997	Across 61
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