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</html><description>Happy birthday to Alan B. Shepard, the first American astronaut to travel into space, born OTD in 1923. He is the only one of the original seven Mercury astronauts to set foot on the moon and coined the classic Shepard's prayer: "Please, dear God, don't let me f*** up." pic.twitter.com/x9wRvCw5OI &mdash; Ray E. Boomhower (@RayBoomhower) &hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tunchiswatching.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>2048</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>1536</thumbnail_height></oembed>
