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 Second to Space - Freedom 7



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Alan Shepard Freedom7: May 5, 1961



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America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard, is honoured on a new Forever postage stamp being issued Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Centre.
The stamp is part of a two-stamp set recalling Shepard and the Messenger Mission, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

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Mercury-Redstone 3 was a U.S. Mercury program manned space mission launched on May 5, 1961 using a Redstone rocket, from Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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