Shepard
n 1: United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays
(born in 1943) [syn: {Shepard}, {Sam Shepard}]
2: astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital
rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998) [syn: {Shepard},
{Alan Shepard}, {Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.}]