Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is hoisted aboard ?
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is hoisted aboard a U.S. Marine helicopter after splashdown of his Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule. Shepard was the first American, and second human after Russian Yuri Gargarin, to make a manned space flight. May 5, 1961
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