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I m a hell of a lot cooler than you guys. Why don t you just fix your little problem and light this candle?
– Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space. His historic mission in the
Freedom 7 spacecraft came a little over three weeks after the Soviet Union successfully made Yuri Gagarin the first person in space. While Gagarin’s spaceflight lasted 108 minutes and included a single orbit around Earth, Shepard’s lasted only 15 minutes and was suborbital.
Shepard’s mission was part of Project Mercury, NASA’s first human spaceflight program, and Shepard was part of a group of astronauts called the Mercury Seven.