One of the astronauts in the Apollo program was Alan Shepard, who was the first American to travel into space, and walked on the moon in 1971. Before exploring space, he explored the seas on USS Cogswell (DD 651), which launched at Bath Iron Works on June 5, 1943. While on the ship, he helped rescue 172 sailors from a cruiser that was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and witnessed the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
