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Freedom 7 was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury capsule when he became the First American and the second person to enter space on the 5th May 1961. In January 1971, Shepard returned to space aboard the Kitty Hawk Apollo 14 spacecraft which took him and his two fellow astronauts to the moon.

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