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Mercury Project
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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. during suiting for the first manned suborbital flight, MR-3 mission. The Freedom 7 spacecraft, carrying the first American, Astronaut Shepard and boosted by the Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle, lifted off on May 5, 1961.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury Project. NASA/MSFC, 1961-05-05. Public domain. ID: 9248359.
