Alan B. Shepard Jr. and the First Spaceflight

Published: May 4, 2008, 8:28 pm

Today, May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first astronaut as he made a 15-minute flight in a space capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida adding legitimatimacy to...

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