Alan Shepard becomes first American in space
Date as reported
Shepard completed a suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7.
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Suborbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Participants
- Alan Shepard
- Country
- US
- Human involvement
- Crewed
- Outcome
- Successful
Sources and attribution
- NASA — 60 moments in NASA history (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.