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Mercury-Redstone 3 Patch
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First U.S. suborbital manned space flight. After reaching peak altitude of 116 miles and a velocity of 5,180 mph, the Mercury capsule landed in the Atlantic Ocean 302 miles downrange following a 14.8 minute flight Astronaut and capsule were recovered by a helicopter within six minutes of landing. The flight demonstrated that a human can control a space vehicle during weightlessness, high gravity systems and suffer no adverse physiological effects. Three days later at the White House, President Kennedy presented Alan Shepard with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal.
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