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Building on America’s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight

America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 5, 1961.

Image Credit: NASA

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"An aerial view of Rocket Park in the southwest quadrant of the 1625-acre Johnson Space Center site features an unflown Apollo Saturn V vehicle, which is open to tourists. Nearby are a Redstone launch stack and a Little Joe II."

Date: April 6, 2000

NASA ID: JSC2000-03010

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Please, dear Lord, don't let me fuck up.

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (1923 – 1998), first American in space, seconds before MR-3 liftoff

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Launch of Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3)

"This is the launch of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission -- the first U.S. manned spaceflight. The spacecraft is already headed towards its suborbital mission." "The spacecraft attained a maximum speed of 5,180 miles per hour (mph), reached an altitude of 116 1/2 statute miles, and landed 302 statute miles downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida."

Date: May 5, 1961

NASA ID: S61-01927, LOC-61C-883, JSC2007-E-046477, S61-01908