File:Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch MR3-9.jpg

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English: Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) launch on May 5, 1961, carrying Alan Shepard on the first U.S. human space flight.
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NASA photograph, apparently part of same sequence as photos S61-02409 and S61-01908, but not listed on NASA photo archive sites.

Obtained from the Project Apollo Archive via http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html (section Pre-Apollo, entry MR3-9). Image file is NASA-hosted.
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current22:01, 10 May 2021Thumbnail for version as of 22:01, 10 May 20211,184 × 1,820 (2.98 MB)Andrej-airliner (talk | contribs)colors
20:31, 10 May 2009Thumbnail for version as of 20:31, 10 May 20092,118 × 2,544 (753 KB)Colin Douglas Howell (talk | contribs)New version from the Project Apollo Archive, which has a link to a NASA-hosted image file of this photo. This is likely to be closer to the original photo than the SpaceArchive.net version, which may have been edited.
19:55, 9 May 2009Thumbnail for version as of 19:55, 9 May 20092,118 × 2,544 (1.65 MB)Colin Douglas Howell (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) launch on May 5, 1961, carrying Alan Shepard on the first U.S. human space flight.}} |Source=NASA photograph, photo ID MR3-9. Not available from NASA photo archive sites. Obtained from Spa

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