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Shepard Approaches Freedom 7 Capsule
Shepard Approaches Freedom 7 Capsule

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. approaches his Freedom 7 capsule, ready to climb in for his historic launch on May…

Alan Shepard and President Kennedy
Alan Shepard and President Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy presents astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal Award in a Rose Garden…

Alan Shepard Inspects His Ride
Alan Shepard Inspects His Ride

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., peers into his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule before launch on the morning of May 5,…

Gus Grissom Wishes Alan Shepard Good Luck
Gus Grissom Wishes Alan Shepard Good Luck

Fellow Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom (in suit) wishes Shepard good luck as he gets set to climb into his Mercury…

Freedom 7 Liftoff
Freedom 7 Liftoff

In this view, the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft carrying Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 is already headed towards its suborbital…

Alan Shepard Suited Up
Alan Shepard Suited Up

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., posing here in his Mercury flight suit, was born in New Hampshire in 1923. After…

Alan Shepard Emerges From Freedom 7 Capsule
Alan Shepard Emerges From Freedom 7 Capsule

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. walks away from his Freedom 7 capsule following a post-flight inspection aboard the carrier USS…

Recovery of Freedom 7
Recovery of Freedom 7

A Marine helicopter picks up Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 capsule in the Atlantic Ocean after his…

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., May 5, 1961
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., May 5, 1961

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch. Just 23 days earlier, Soviet…

Tortula Facula
Tortula Facula

These side-by-side images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the feature named Tortola Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. The left…