[DOC] [TLE] Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., May 5, 1961 | NASA [PAR] May 2, 2016 ... Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. in Freedom 7 capsule, May 5, ... Just 23 days 
earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first man in space. ... His 
spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, 302 miles from Cape ... the top 
of the Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft, Alan Shepard is hoisted into a... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) | NASA [PAR] The main scientific objective of project Mercury was to determine man's 
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His spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, 302 miles from Cape ... It 
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attempt to put a man into space by the U.S. aboard a Mercury .... gets set to climb 
into his Mercury capsule, dubbed Freedom 7, on the morning of May 5, 1961. [DOC] [TLE] Freedom 7 Space Capsule - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library ... [PAR] On May 5, 1961, US Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., soared into history. ... 
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spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic, 302 miles (486 km) from Cape... [DOC] [TLE] astronaut-amanda | Mercury [PAR] The first U.S. spaceship was a cone-shaped, one-man capsule. ... His Freedom 7 
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the Atlantic. ... May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard in his Spacesuit Before Mercury 
Launch. [DOC] [TLE] 'What a Beautiful View': The 15 Minutes of Freedom 7  AmericaSpace [PAR] May 5, 2013 ... For the man inside the cramped Freedom 7 capsule, his world was the .... Four 
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Question: On May 5, 1961 the Freedom 7 capsule splashed down in the Atlantic with this man inside
Answer: Alan Shepard