File:Mercury-Redstone 3 Liftoff LOC-61C-883.jpg

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Description	English: Liftoff of flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), or Freedom 7, on May 5, 1961, carrying astronaut Alan Shepard.
Date	5 May 1961
Source	Kennedy Space Center Photo Archive, http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/1961/captions/LOC-61C-883.html.
Author	NASA
Other versions	Launch of Freedom 7 - GPN-2000-000859.jpg (color, slightly higher resolution)

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