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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,064 posts) Fri May 6, 2022, 10:37 AM May 2022

Launch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, May 5, 1961 [View all]

In White House Rose Garden, three days after Alan Shepard’s flight of today 1961 as first American in space, JFK accidentally drops Shepard's medal, picks it up and then quips that the medal “has gone from the ground up—here”:

Launch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, today 1961. Compared to rocket that took Apollo astronauts into space to land on moon, Shepard’s looks almost like a toy.

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Launch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, May 5, 1961 [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 OP

There is in-capsule video of Shepard's trip: malthaussen May 2022 #1

........... Tommy Carcetti May 2022 #2

Remember it well watching in the lobby of the Sherwood-Bates Elementary, Raleigh NC. Hoyt May 2022 #3

We watched it from the auditorium. That's where the television set was. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 #4

Still have some of the stamps issued back then Liberal In Texas May 2022 #5