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Noun: Shepard  she-pu(r)d
  1. Astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
    - Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
     
  2. United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)
    - Sam Shepard

Type of: astronaut, cosmonaut, dramatist, playwright, spaceman, spacewoman

Encyclopedia: Shepard, Richard