Alan Shepard was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. A few years later, Shepard became the oldest man ever to walk on the surface of the moon.

In this 1994 interview, Shepard looks back on those Apollo years, to tell the inside story of how America put men on the moon and returned them home safely by the end of the decade.

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