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Press release from St. Louis Science Center:
May 5, 2022
On this date in 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first American in space aboard his Mercury capsule MR-3, Freedom 7. He would also walk on the Moon in 1971, as commander of the Apollo 14 flight.
This press release was produced by St. Louis Science Center. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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