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326-IM-0016A-0416
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Capsule Inspection
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- 1961-05-21 (Creation)
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The Times of Ceylon Press
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Capsule Inspection — Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first U.S. astronaut to ride the Project Mercury capsule through space, inspects the capsule after it was recovered from the Atlantic and take aboard the USS Lake Champlain May 05. Shepard left the one-ton spacecraft, named "Freedom 7", while it was still in the water and returned to the carrier aboard the recovery helicopter. The capsule was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida and landed 302 miles (486 kilometers) down the Atlantic Test Range.
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- The Times of Ceylon Press (Creator)
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42.1 MiB
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