File:Shepard with Freedom 7 capsule MSFC-6417078.jpg

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English: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., America's first astronaut, stands in front of the Freedom 7 spacecraft shortly after completion of the fourth flight of the Mercury-Redstone vehicle, May 5, 1961. During the 15-minute suborbital flight, the Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft, launched atop a modified Redstone rocket developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and the rocket team in Huntsville, Alabama, reached an altitude of 115 miles (185 km) and traveled 302 miles (486 km) downrange.
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