Friday, 17 November 2023

Celebrating Astronaut Alan Shepard's 100th Birthday


Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., attired in his Mercury pressure suit, poses for a photo on May 5, 1961, prior to his launch in a Mercury-Redstone 3 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission – the first U.S. manned spaceflight. via NASA https://ift.tt/ibG6aJP
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