Did ye know...Scottish-Americans were the first humans in space?
McDonnel built the Mercury and Gemini space capsules. In 1961
Alan Shepherd was the first American in Space. In 1962 John Glann became the first American
to orbit the Earth. In '84 Bruce McCandless II became the first human sattelite by being
the first man to fly free in Space....coooool!
In 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, also of Scottish descent landed on the moon,
Armstrong wore his kilt in the parade at his ancestral hometown of Langholm, Scotland
Other Scottish-American men to walk the moon were Alan Bean, Shepherd, David Scott
and James Irwin--who was the first to drive on the moon
Scottish band Silencers with Painted Moon
The Waterboys a predominately Scottish band hailing from Edinburgh
with the song
The Whole of the Moon
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