Paul Quinn wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    PQ> In a message to Alexander Koryagin you wrote:   
      
    RW>> Freedom 7 carried Alan Shepard into space. He was also the first man   
    RW>> to walk on the Moon.   
      
    PQ> So, Neil Armstrong just carried his luggage?   
      
   No, I don't know where that came from.   
      
   Buzz Aldrin was in the moon lander setting up the camera that filmed   
   Neil's (man's) 1st moon walk and then descended the craft's ladder to the   
   surface. Of course this was more than 10 years after Shepard became the   
   2nd person in space.   
      
   Alan Shepard, who in 1961 became the first American, to travel into space   
   aboard a Mercury space capsule. He didn't achieve orbit, which was the   
   goal of the Mercury project. I guess you could say that he was the   
   'oldest' person to achieve orbit, about 10 years later in Appolo 14.   
      
    RW>> PS - The first man in space was Joseph Kittinger - in a balloon   
    RW>> (USA) 8^)   
      
    PQ> By those standards,   
      
   You're not familiar with the facts? Joe Kittinger was the guiding hand   
   that helped the more recent person take a dive in man-no-air-ship space,   
   called a high dive. He is also on record for the first man in space from a   
   balloon. Facts over fiction which can be proven.   
      
    PQ>  it was in fact a Chinese alchemist on a rocket-powered throne in the   
    PQ> early 1000s AD.   
      
   Got a Google link to that info? Didn't think so.   
      
    PQ>   Though this was later unproven by the Mythbusters team.   
      
   Ahhh, those guys ... a lot of what they do can be debunked and often is.   
   Although what their show is about is a lot of fun to watch when they make   
   such fools out of themselves. Especially the bald headed, handle barred   
   monkey 'screwing' a football character.   
      
      
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