Crew Members - USS Champlain - Arrival - Astronaut Alan Shepard
S61-02711 (5 May 1961) --- Crew members of the U.S. Navy Carrier Champlain cheer and take pictures of the arrival of the first Project Mercury pilot to fly a suborbital flight, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Two helicopters are approaching the ship, one carrying the astronaut and the other the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) capsule. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Date
- 1961-01-01
- Collection
- JSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Crew Members - USS Champlain - Arrival - Astronaut Alan Shepard" (1961-01-01). NASA/JSC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/S61-02711Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 24015.
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