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Crew Members - USS Champlain - Arrival - Astronaut Alan Shepard
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Crew Members - USS Champlain - Arrival - Astronaut Alan Shepard

NASA / JSC · 1961-01-01 · photograph (digital archive)

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S61-02711 (5 May 1961) --- Crew members of the U.S. Navy Carrier Champlain cheer and take pictures of the arrival of the first Project Mercury pilot to fly a suborbital flight, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Two helicopters are approaching the ship, one carrying the astronaut and the other the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) capsule.

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Credit lineCrew Members - USS Champlain - Arrival - Astronaut Alan Shepard. NASA/JSC, 1961-01-01. Public domain. ID: S61-02711.
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