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Description	English: Launching of flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), the first U.S. manned space flight, from Cape Canaveral on May 5, 1961, on a sub-orbital mission. Español: Lanzamiento del Mercurio 3 el 5 de mayo de 1961 con el astronauta Alan Shepard, primer estadounidense en llegar al espacio. El vuelo suborbital duró 15 minutos y 28 segundos. La cápsula espacial Freedom 7 alcanzó una altura de 170 kilómetros y cayó finalmente en el Océano Atlántico a 450 km del sitio de lanzamiento Cabo Cañaveral en Florida.
Date	5 May 1961(1961-05-05)
Source	NASA photograph. Low-resolution version available from Johnson Space Center's Digital Image Collection. High-resolution version not listed on NASA photo archive sites, but available at the Project Apollo Archive via http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html (section Pre-Apollo, entry S61-1927). Image file is NASA-hosted.
Author	NASA
Other versions	S61-01927 (low resolution)

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:06, 6 May 2009		1,924 × 2,500 (755 KB)	Colin Douglas Howell	Reverted to version as of 19:31, 19 December 2005. This older original version has fewer artifacts.
	21:19, 19 December 2005		1,924 × 2,500 (370 KB)	ArtMechanic
	19:31, 19 December 2005		1,924 × 2,500 (755 KB)	Denniss	NASA Hires vrsion
	21:58, 30 November 2005		770 × 1,000 (172 KB)	Pil56	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mercury_3.jpg