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Huntsville marks special space anniversary, looks ahead to Space Command Updated May 06, 2021; Posted May 06, 2021 Retired NASA engineer Jay Foster, who was part of the team that built the Redstone rockets that carried the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, speaks May 5, 2021, while standing next to a space capsule simulator where Shepard and other astronauts trained. (Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com) Facebook Share It’s perhaps a forgotten anniversary, overshadowed by much grander accomplishments in the U.S. space program. But the 60th anniversary Wednesday of the first American in space – Alan Shepard’s blink-of-an-eye trip in the tiny Freedom 7 space capsule – gave Huntsville another opportunity to tout its space bona fides, an opportunity too tempting to pass up amid the political wrestling match over U.S. Space Command.

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