AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE RIGHT STUFF) SAM SHEPARD: (As Chuck Yeager) I think I see a plane over here with my name on it. CORNISH: That's from his Oscar-nominated performance as test pilot

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One of this country's most prolific playwrights has died. Sam Shepard, who portrayed the frayed ends of the American experience - rugged characters, toxic relationships. He wrote more than 40 plays, among them True West and Burie

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA -October 27, 2002: Alan Shepard By Avi Arditti VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Each week we te

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Alan Shepard waiting for launch into space on May 5, 1961 And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Each week we tell about someone important in the history of the United

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EXPLORATIONS - 1961: Telling Mission Control 'Light This Candle,' Alan Shepard Is Launched Into SpaceBy Marilyn Christiano and Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 VOICE ONE: This is St

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the first American program to send a person into space. It was called Project Mercury. (MUSIC) VO

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People in America - Alan Shepard, 1923-1998: The First American to Fly in Space SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Each week we tell about someone important

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EXPLORATIONS - Project Mercury: Alan Shepard Becomes the First American in Space STEVE EMBER: This is Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the firs

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May 5th,1961 -Alan Shepard becomes Americas first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three, Two, One, Zero. Ignition. Shepard makes 15-minute suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom Seven. 1821 -Frances fo

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May 5th, 1961Alan Shepard becomes Americas first space travelerblasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 3, 2, 1, 0, ignition. Shepard makes a 15-minute suborbital flight on boardhis Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7. 1821Frances former ruler Napol

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May 5th 1961Alan Shepard becomes America's first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. three, two, one, zero, ignition. Shepard makes a 15-miunte suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7. 1821France's former

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May 5th 1961Alan Shepard becomes America's first space traveler blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. three, two, one, zero, ignition. Shepard makes a 15-miunte suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed Freedom 7. 1821France's former

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GWEN IFILL: There's yet another new revelation in General Motors' mass recalls over faulty ignition switches. Internal e-mails show GM ordered half-a-million replacement switches nearly two months before telling safety regulators about the problem. T

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October 7th, 2001Just weeks after the September 11th terror-attacks, the United States and Britain launch military strikes on Afghanistan. On a video tape, Osama Bin Laden praises god for the 9.11 attacks, but the Al-Qaeda leader does not claim respo

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October 7th, 2001, just weeks after the September 11th terror-attacks, the United States and Britain launch military strikes on Afghanistan. On a video tape, Osama Bin Laden prays God for the 9.11 attacks, but the Al-Qaeda leader does not claim respo

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October 7th, 2001, just weeks after the September 11th terror-attacks, the United States and Britain launch military strikes on Afghanistan. On a video tape, Osama Bin Laden prays God for the 9.11 attacks, but the Al-Qaeda leader does not claim respo

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The United States space program began in the late 1950s. Only a little more than fifty years earlier, in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the very first airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Yet by mid-century, air travel was common. After the

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