KSC-71p-260
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is hoisted up in a body harness by a U.S. Marine helicopter recovery team following the first Project Mercury suborbital space flight. Astronaut Shepard, along with his spacecraft, was then taken to the U.S. Navy Carrier Chaplain.
- Date
- 1961-05-05
- Photographer / author
- NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Collection
- KSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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