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Alan Shepard: 1st American in Space

Alan Shepard Retrieved After Returning From Space

Alan Shepard Retrieved After Returning From Space

A Navy chopper retrieves Alan Shepard from the sea after his space flight. Shepard said later, ''I knew I had done a pretty good job."

In this photo: Alan B. Shepard [Misc.]

Photo: Dean Conger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

May 12, 1961
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