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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaunch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, May 5, 1961
In White House Rose Garden, three days after Alan Shepards flight of today 1961 as first American in space, JFK accidentally drops Shepard's medal, picks it up and then quips that the medal has gone from the ground uphere:
Launch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, today 1961. Compared to rocket that took Apollo astronauts into space to land on moon, Shepards looks almost like a toy.
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Launch from Cape Canaveral of Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard, first American in space, May 5, 1961 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2022
OP
Remember it well watching in the lobby of the Sherwood-Bates Elementary, Raleigh NC.
Hoyt
May 2022
#3
We watched it from the auditorium. That's where the television set was. NT
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2022
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malthaussen
(17,216 posts)1. There is in-capsule video of Shepard's trip:
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I was just a kid, and I wanted to be an astronaut because of this.
-- Mal
I was just a kid, and I wanted to be an astronaut because of this.
-- Mal
Tommy Carcetti
(43,198 posts)2. ...........
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. Remember it well watching in the lobby of the Sherwood-Bates Elementary, Raleigh NC.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,613 posts)4. We watched it from the auditorium. That's where the television set was. NT
Liberal In Texas
(13,576 posts)5. Still have some of the stamps issued back then
as a kid I kind of collected them.