Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Wife Louise SHepard - from our story 'May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard Blasts Off To Outer Space And Comes Back Alive (Photos)'

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American to make a space flight, relaxes beside a pool at a Cocoa Beach Hotel in Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 16, 1961. Mrs. Louise Shepard reads a book in the background. This week a second astronaut will duplicate Shepard’s feat by making a suborbital flight from Cape Canaveral aboard a Mercury spacecraft atop a Redstone rocket. (AP Photo/Murray Becker Ref #: PA.8776659