Alan Shepard
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the
Shepard in 1971
USS Cogswell in 1945
Shepard as a student aviator in 1946
Shepard's 105th F4U sortie on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mercury-Redstone 3
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Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury. The project had t
Alan Shepard
…in 1950. He was selected as one of NASA's original Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. His craft entered space, but was not capable of achieving orbit. He became the second person, and the first American…
Still frame of Alan Shepard taken by a motion picture camera aboard Freedom 7 during splashdown
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Launch of MR-3 on May 5, 1961
Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 spacecraft before launch