Building on America’s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight
5 May 2026, 16:06 GMT
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America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 5, 1961.