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They had the right Stuff Bonus cache 1 of 2 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/19/2022
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               THIS IS A BONUS CACHE FOR COMPLETING THE ADVENTURE LAB PART 1 IN DERRY, NH PART 2 IS IN CONCORD, NH. YOU MAY DO THE LAB IN ANY ORDER. TITLED They had the right Stuff McAuliffe/Shepard. THE POSTED COORDINATES ARE FACT..IF YOU KNOW THE CO YOU KNOW WHERE THOSE COORDINATES ARE POSTED OR TAKE A LOOK AT THE LAB. You may do this bonus at any time.

                             

 

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronautnaval aviatortest pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon.

 

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II. He became a naval aviator in 1946, and a test pilot in 1950. He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. His craft entered space, but was not capable of achieving orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first space traveler to manually control the orientation of his craft. 

 Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the Apollo Lunar Module Antares. At age 47, he became the fifth, the oldest, and the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to walk on the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface.

Shepard was Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 to August 1969 (the approximate period of his grounding), and from June 1971 until his retirement from the United States Navy and NASA on August 1, 1974. He was promoted to rear admiral on August 25, 1971, the first astronaut to reach that rank.

Among astronauts who had walked on the Moon, he was the second to die. Shepard's widow Louise had planned to cremate his remains and scatter the ashes, but before she was able to do that, she herself died from a heart attack—on August 25, 1998, at 17:00, which, coincidentally, was the same time of day at which he had always phoned her when they were apart. They had been married for 53 years.

As one of the 12 astronauts in the NASA program, Shepard was provided a Corvette courtesy of GM.

       N42 53.419 W71 17.698

 

 

Congratulations to WilliamTell and Smitty03275 for the first and second to find.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fznyy pnzb pbagnvare raq bs gur frpbaq tenavgr fyno. V chg vg urer pnhfr V xabj ubj lbh yvxr gb fvg qbja jura lbh fvta gur ybt. Erynk lbh'ir rnearq vg!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)