The daughter of the man who played golf on the moon is going to space: "It's just going to be...

Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space when he blasted off in May 1961 — then went on to walk on the moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, famously hitting a golf ball during a moonwalk.


Now, more than half a century later, his oldest daughter will blast off to space on a flight of her own. Laura Shepard Churchley is scheduled to launch aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft Saturday morning, along with former NFL star and "Good Morning America" host Michael Strahan and four other crewmates.

"I'm excited to kind of be following in my father's footsteps, for starters," said Laura Shepard Churchley in an interview on "Good Morning America."