Records Relating to Mercury 3 and Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN, 1959-1961.

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Records Relating to Mercury 3 and Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN, 1959-1961.

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This collection contains miscellaneous records relating to the 5 May 1961 flight of Mercury 3 with astronaut Alan Shepard. Included are navigation and radio logs, correspondence and message traffic, photographs of the recovery of Freedom 7, and navigation and data charts relating to the flight.

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Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7756926

Operational Archive Branch, Naval History Center

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