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  2. Mercury-Redstone 3 - Wikipedia

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    Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury . The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and returning him safely.

  3. Project Mercury - Wikipedia

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    Alan Shepard became the first American in space on a suborbital flight three weeks later, on May 5, 1961. [138] John Glenn, the third Mercury astronaut to fly, became the first American to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, but only after the Soviets had launched a second cosmonaut, Gherman Titov , into a day-long flight in August 1961. [ 220 ]

  4. List of human spaceflights, 1961–1970 - Wikipedia

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    12 April 1961 Vostok 1: First crewed spaceflight. Reached Low Earth Orbit (LEO), flew around the Earth one time. 2 Alan Shepard (1) 5 May 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 : First American crewed spaceflight. Did not reach Earth orbit, maximum altitude: 187 km (116 miles). [1] [2] 3 Gus Grissom (1) 21 July 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7)

  5. Alan Shepard - Wikipedia

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    Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut.In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47.

  6. Timeline of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    12 April 1961: First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin). First human-crewed orbital flight. USSR Vostok 1 [11] [12] 5 May 1961: First human-piloted space flight (Alan Shepard). First human-crewed suborbital flight. USA Freedom 7: 19 May 1961: First planetary flyby (within 100,000 km of Venus – no data returned). USSR Venera 1: 6 August 1961

  7. Human spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    On 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, as part of Project Mercury. Humans traveled to the Moon nine times between 1968 and 1972 as part of the United States' Apollo program , and have had a continuous presence in space for 24 years and 58 days on the International Space Station (ISS). [ 2 ]

  8. 1961 in spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    First flyby of Venus Spacecraft was already non-functional as communication had been lost en route, closest approach: 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi) [ 1 ] Notable creations of orbital debris

  9. 1961 in spaceflight (January–June) - Wikipedia

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    5 May 14:34 Redstone MRLV Cape Canaveral LC-5 NASA Mercury-Redstone 3: NASA Suborbital Crewed flight: 14:49: Successful Carried Alan Shepard, first American in space, apogee 187 kilometres (116 mi) 5 May 23:00 Nike-Cajun Wallops Island NASA NASA Suborbital Aeronomy: 5 May: Successful Apogee: 117 kilometres (73 mi) 6 May 04:54 Nike-Cajun Wallops ...