{"id":4659,"date":"2026-05-05T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:24:56","slug":"alan-shepard-was-first-astronaut-in-1961-to-go-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4659","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shepard in 1961 Was First American to Go into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30587 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Shepard-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" \/>Alan Shepard, aboard <em>Freedom 7<\/em>, became the first American and the second man to travel in space<\/strong>. The year was 1961. The astronaut traveled about 115 miles into space at 5,000 miles per hour. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/k-4\/stories\/nasa-knows\/who-was-alan-shepard-k4.html\">Alan Shepard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Shepard, aboard Freedom 7, became the first American and the second man to travel in space. The year was 1961. The astronaut traveled about 115 miles into space at 5,000 miles per hour. Children can learn more at: Alan Shepard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5309,1894,1896,1895,5519],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5309","tag-alan-shepard","tag-first-american-and-the-second-man-to-travel-in-space","tag-freedom-7","tag-may-5","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30588,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/30588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}