Alan Shepard

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1923 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 60

   CreditThe Right Stuff

3. 1998 age 74

   Died

• SGScott Glenn1 title
• LHLance Henriksen1 title
• JGJeff Goldblum1 title
• VCVeronica Cartwright1 title
• SWScott Wilson1 title
• OJO-Lan Jones1 title
• EHEd Harris1 title
• PKPhilip Kaufman1 title
• BHBarbara Hershey1 title
• HSHarry Shearer1 title

• There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

  Alan Shepard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

  Alan Shepard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There were similarities between these two incidents. The similarity was too much success … over-confidence and complacency, quite frankly.

  Alan Shepard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  Alan Shepard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I guess those of us who have been with NASA … kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

  Alan Shepard, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We need a continuing presence in space.

  Alan Shepard, CC BY-SA 4.0