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Today in the 20th Century: Alan B. Shepard Jr. Becomes the First American in Space – May 5, 1961

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard spends an exciting 15 minutes in suborbital space to become the first American to travel into space, only three years after the establishment of NASA and less than a month after Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut became the first person in space and the first to orbit the…

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