Remembering America's first astronaut

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-6 12:06:06

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50 years later

Alan Shepard went on to walk on the moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, and passed away in 1998 at the age of 74. On May 4, 2011, a stamp set commemorating the 50th anniversary of Shepard's Mercury flight as well as the Messenger mission to Mercury was unveiled at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Among the special guests at the ceremony was Alan Shepard's daughter, Julie Shepard Jenkins.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-6 12:12:33

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U.S. Naval Academy

The centerpiece of the Graduates in Space exhibit at the U.S. Naval Academy Visitors Center in Annapolis, Md. is the Freedom 7 space capsule, flown into space in 1961 by Naval Academy graduate Alan B. Shepard, Jr.(Class of 1945).

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-6 12:12:07

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雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-6 12:11:26

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Visiting the White House

President John F. Kennedy congratulates Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard during a Rose Garden ceremony on May 8, 1961, at the White House. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, NASA Administrator James Webb and several NASA astronauts are in the background. Less than a month later, Kennedy addressed Congress on his plan to put an American on the moon by the end of the decade.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-5-6 12:10:59

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All smiles

Alan Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by fellow Mercury astronauts Deke Slayton (left) and Gus Grissom (far right). Air Force Col. Keith Lindell walks between Shepard and Grissom.

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NASA

Astronaut on deck

Alan Shepard walks away from the Freedom 7 capsule after making a postflight inspection aboard the USS Lake Champlain.

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NASA

Hoisted up

Astronaut Alan Shepard is pulled up to his rescue helicopter after America's first manned spaceflight on May 5, 1961.

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NASA

Hoisted up

Astronaut Alan Shepard is pulled up to his rescue helicopter after America's first manned spaceflight on May 5, 1961.

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Splashdown

After a little more than 15 minutes of flight, Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 capsule splashed down in the Atlantic, about 300 miles east of the Cape Canaveral launch pad. A Marine helicopter came to Shepard's rescue.

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