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The Smithsonian reopened the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F.Udvar-HazyCenter to the public Wednesday, May 5, on the 60th anniversary of the first American spaceflight and for the first time, the Mercury mission’s Freedom 7 capsule that carried Alan Shepard into space was on display. On May 5, 1961, he made the first crewed American flight into space. Shepard would go on to walk on the moon. The Mercury mission’s Freedom 7 capsule that carried Alan Shepard into space on May 5, 1961, the first crewed American spaceflight. [Renss Greene/Loudoun Now] But if the historic Freedom 7 space capsule isn’t enough, visitors will for the first time also get to see to a Blue Angels F/A-18C on display, which the museum acquired in November after it flew into Washington Dulles International Airport.

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