
Mission start: May 05, 1961
Mission end: May 05, 1961
Astronaut: Alan Shepard
Space program: Project Mercury

Still frame of Alan Shepard taken by a motion picture camera aboard Freedom 7
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(1961) Mercury program sends the first American into space.
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