[DOC] [TLE] Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., May 5, 1961 | NASA [PAR] Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. in Freedom 7 capsule, May 5, .... 20, 1962, from 
Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ... He returned to 
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday to begin a weekend of 
events... [DOC] [TLE] May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard in Spacesuit Before Mercury Launch ... [PAR] May 5, 2016 ... He became the first American to fly into space. ... His May 5, 1961, launch from 
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Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. ... the race 
when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into space, put in orbit ... Russian 
astronaut Yuri Gagarin, taken during his visit to Admiralty House where he met 
Harold... [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard: First American in Space - Space.com [PAR] May 5, 2014 ... By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor | May 5, 2014 10:00am ET ... first 
American in space on May 5, 1961 aboard his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7. ... 
the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space and he became ... 
Shepard blasted back into space from Cape Canaveral on Jan. [DOC] [TLE] THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Freedom 7 Launched From Cape ... [PAR] May 5, 2016 ... 7) carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., was launched from Cape Canaveral 
on May 5 in 1961 by MercuryRedstone (MR3) launch vehicle,... [DOC] [TLE] On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Went to Outer Space and Came Home [PAR] May 5, 2011 ... On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 mission and became the ... now 
a Smithsonian artifact, was launched from Cape Canaveral, ... He would be the 
only astronaut from the Mercury program to land on the Moon. [DOC] [TLE] Alan Shepard - Wikipedia [PAR] Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923  July 21, 1998) 
was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, one of the original NASA 
Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in May 1961 made the first 
manned Mercury flight. ..... On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted the Mercury-
Redstone 3 mission and... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury-Redstone 3 - Wikipedia [PAR] Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight
, on May 5, ... Launch site, Cape Canaveral LC-5 .... The initial launch attempt, on 
May 2, was canceled due to weather problems two hours ... He entered the 
spacecraft at 5:15 a.m. ET, just over two hours before the planned 7:20 launch 
time. [DOC] [TLE] May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard Blasts Off To Outer Space And Comes ... [PAR] Nov 16, 2014 ... When on May 5, 1961, Alan B Shepard was strapped into the the Freedom 7 ... 
He was launched by one of former Nazi Werner Von Braun's ... of the US Navy 
was launched into sub-orbital flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida... [DOC] [TLE] This day in history: The first American in space - AOL News - AOL.com [PAR] May 5, 2015 ... On May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first American in space. He 
took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard the Freedom 7... [DOC] [TLE] astronaut-amanda | Mercury [PAR] His Freedom 7 capsule launched from Complex 5 at Cape Canaveral, ... 
launched aboard a Mercury-Atlas rocket, and during his almost five-hour flight he 
circled Earth ... May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard in his Spacesuit Before Mercury 
Launch. [DOC] [TLE] This date in science: First American in space | Science Wire | EarthSky [PAR] May 5, 2016 ... Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961. ... 302 miles (
486 km) from Cape Canaveral, where he and Freedom 7 were ... The Soviet

Question: On May 5, 1961 he is launched from Cape Canaveral
Answer: Alan Shepard