If you don’t use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Born in Derry, New Hampshire, Alan Shephard (1923-1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman.  In 1961, he became the first American to travel into space.  In 1971, he became the fifth person (and the oldest) to walk on the Moon at the age of 47.