After a nine hour launch delay, Shepard also reported that the US had launched “the first wetback into space.”
LOL! Navy humor. He was the first and the first is the most dangerous.
I think some of the most amazing stuff was:
1. Getting Apollo 13 back. Doing calculations and burns on the fly. Steering the LEM as doing the burns. I mean it is really a miracle they got back.
2. Armstrong saving a Gemini and the biggest Apollo mission because he was an incredible pilot who was cool as they come.