Alan Shepard

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On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to be called a real astronaut, riding on board the Mercury space capsule Freedom 7 to an altitude of about a hundred miles. It was a suborbital flight, and the rocket’s trajectory brought him down again to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas. The first minute of flight was fairly smooth, until the rocket made the transition to supersonic speed - as Shepard put it, "the ride did get a little rough." When things settled down, and the capsule separated from the Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard had a beautiful view of Florida - south to the Keys, north toward the Carolinas, west to Lake Okeechobee, Tampa Bay and Pensacola, and east to Bimini.

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First lady Edith Wilson, center, and President Woodrow Wilson, left, arrive in New York October 11, 1918 to take part in the Liberty Day Parade. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS

Reconnaissance squads head the German advance into Luxembourg, on May 10, 1940. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS

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