Mercury-Redstone_3_Launch_S61-02408.jpg

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Description	English: Launching of flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), the first U.S. manned space flight, from Cape Canaveral on May 5, 1961, on a sub-orbital mission.
Date	5 May 1961
Source	Johnson Space Center's Digital Image Collection, http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=S61-02408 .
Author	NASA

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