Alan Shepard First Flight

Navy test pilot Alan Shepard joined the astronaut program in 1959. He became the first American and the second man in space on May 5 1961 when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer 300-mile 15-minute suborbital flight.

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The Flight of Alan B.

Alan shepard first flight. Sixty years ago on May 5 1961 a Redstone rocket hurled Alan Shepards Mercury capsule Freedom 7 116 miles 187. First American In Space.

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