On This Day In Space: May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space
By Hanneke Weitering
On This Day In Space: May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space | Space
"On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in a space capsule named Freedom 7."
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