On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/a6Mhaea He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in a space capsule named Freedom 7. This was the first manned flight of Project Mercury, which NASA created to put astronauts in orbit. Shepard launched just three weeks after the Soviet Union launched the first person into orbit. Shepard's flight was suborbital and lasted only 15 minutes, but he
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