File:Alan Shepard in capsule aboard Freedom 7 before launch.jpg
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English: Alan Shepard in capsule aboard Freedom 7 before launch—1961
Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961. He launched aboard his Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket named Freedom 7--the suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes. |
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| Source | NASA Image of the Day Gallery page for May 5, 1961: description, image file. |
| Author | NASA |
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| current | 17:47, 19 May 2009 | 2,678 × 4,096 (1.35 MB) | Colin Douglas Howell | Larger, higher resolution, less cropped. From [http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1076.html NASA Image of the Day Gallery page for May 5, 1961] ([http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/225750main_1076_full_full.jpg] image file). |
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