[Lancey Howard]

Anyway, every reference there is to Alan Shepard refers to him as America's "first man in space", suborbital notwithstanding. I maintain the author of this thread is wrongo.

FRegards,
LH

[Frantzie]

Glenn was the third astronaut and they made the biggest deal of him of all the Mercury astronauts. Why? First orbital flight. Glenn was a creepy bas*ard anyway while Shepherd was a good guy.

People made comments about the article to discredit the kids based on the correct oribtal comment and the LEDs comment which was wrong. The author probably was sloppy on the lights the boys used.

[norraad]

Everybody knows " A L I C E ! " Kramden was first " .. to the moon!"