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Flags Pages On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepherd became the first American in space when he took a 15 minute sub-orbital flight over the Pacific Ocean for 304 miles. Shepherd later recalled that he only had a 30 second view out of Mercury 3's window. Mercury 3
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Flags Pages He was the commander of Apollo 11. It was Americas first attempt the land on the moons lunar surface. On July 20, 1969 commander Armstrong and astronaut Edwin Aldrin became the first to step foot on the moon.
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Flags Pages She was the first American women in space. She mad her historic Space Flight aboard STS-7 (June 18-24, 1983) Her second flight was shuttle mission 41-G October 5-13 1984. She retired from NASA in August 1987.
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Flags Pages John Glenn blasted off in February of 1962. John Glenn was the first American man in space, and the first man ever to orbit the Earth. John Glen orbited the Earth 3 times in 5 hours. He went back to space in the Space Shuttle Columbia mission of 1998. He became the oldest person ever to enter space.
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Flags Pages Buzz joined NASA in October 1963, he served as a capcom (capsule communicator) for Gemini 5 and Gemini 10. His first space flight came on November 11- 15, 1966 when he piloted Gemini 12 the last of the Gemini missions.
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Flags Pages She was chosen out of 10,463 applicants for the chance to be the first teacher in space, but she didn't reach space,
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