U. S. NAVY COMMANDER ALAN B. SHEPARD, JR.
WAS BORN NOVEMBER 18, 1923 IN
EAST DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE
On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Mer
cury-Redstone 3 "Freedom 7" spacecraft on the
first manned space flight of the United States.
MR-3 was a suborbital flight following a ballistic
trajectory. The flight attained an altitude of
approximately 116 statute miles and the space-
craft traveled about 254 statute miles down the
Atlantic Missile Range.
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