. >> that was frank mcgee on this network, and this is the 50th anniversary of the first american ine. it was the late great allen shepherd who did it. and if there is a palpable absence of joy or national pride missing from frank mcgee's delivery in that clip, it's because we were behind. the soviets sent the first man up less than four weeks earlier. we were struggling to catch up. john glenn late became the first american to orbit the earth, and the u.s. of course won the space race to the moon. and allen shepherd became the fifth man to walk on the moon and the first guy ever to hit a golf ball on the moon. capping a brilliant career as an aviator, astronaut, and moon golfer. >>> and you have heard the expression about when the planets are aligned, well, right now, they are. at least six of them. they're visible in something of a conga line in the dawn sky. mercury, venus, mars, your manes, neptune. most are visible to the naked eye, and they'll stay that way for most of the month of may. >> the last known surviving combat veteran of world war i has died. claude stanley choules w