A Sikorsky HUS-1 <i>Seahorse</i> (after 1962 UH-34E) of Marine squadron HMM-262 from the U.S. aircraft carrier <i>USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39)</i> retrieving the <i>Freedom 7</i> spacecraft (<i>Mercury-Redstone 3</i>), with which astronaut Alan Shepard made the first U.S. suborbital flight into space on 5 May 1961 (location: 27.23° N 75.88° W).
USN
1961-05-05
U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News June 1961 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/1960s/1961/Jun61.pdf">[1]</a>