Don’t know how many of you remember this, but — like a lot of my generation — this is what got first got me interested in the space program — and then in a bit of a convuluted way, the sea.
Anyway … it was May 5, 1961 when Commander Alan Shepard Jr. made the first U.S. manned space flight. The flight of Freedom 7 (aka Mercury 3) lasted 15 minutes and 28 seconds and reached an altitude of 116.5 statute miles with a velocity of 5,134 mph.
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