A youth project involving sheep can be a wonderful experience for a young person as well as their family. The project teaches that dedication and hard work is rewarded. Having an understanding of sheep behavior can greatly add to the success of the project by allowing the young person and their family to realize that the sheep reacts the way it does because of instinct. By accepting these instincts and using them to your advantage a great deal of stress both to the animal and the people can be avoided. Lets look briefly at some basic facts about sheep.
Alan Shepard: Complicated, Conflicted and the Consummate Astronaut
Alan Shepard: Complicated, Conflicted and the Consummate Astronaut - Universe Today
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. November 18, — July 21, was an American astronaut , naval aviator , test pilot , and businessman. In , he became the first American to travel into space, and in , he walked on the Moon. He became a naval aviator in , and a test pilot in His craft entered space, but was not capable of achieving orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first space traveler to manually control the orientation of his craft. In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10 MA , which was planned as a three-day mission.
By Ross Engel —. Perched atop the towering, eighty-three foot tall, Redstone-3, Mercury 7 booster rocket, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard had plenty of time to contemplate and pray before his Freedom 7 capsule was launched into the great unknowns of space. The eyes of every American were glued to a TV set to watch this historic event. It seems that such a prayer might be appropriate for occasions beyond being launched into space!
Shepard was the consummate astronaut, — he stayed with NASA for over 15 years, and eventually walked on the Moon. Through years of research, Thompson found Shepard to be a much more compelling man than he ever expected. He was highly competitive, but he was also a softy underneath at times. He was accused over the years of being a bit of a womanizer, and yet he was married to the same woman for plus years and I think they were very devoted to each other. So there were a lot of complex aspects to his personality that were fun to explore.