Nightly News | May 05, 2011
Alan Shepard Mercury Freedom 7
May 5, 1961: Fifty years ago, Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a suborbital flight. NBC News broadcast a special report anchored by Frank McGee.
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