Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., dressed in his Mercury pressure suit, poses for a photo prior to his launch in a Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission. This mission was the first human spaceflight. Image #: s63-02082 Date: May 5, 1961

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Keywords: nasa, space