Astronaut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._Shepard_Jr." class="extiw" title="w:Alan B. Shepard Jr.">Alan B. Shepard Jr.</a> and his <i>Freedom 7</i> spacecraft are retrieved by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_H-34" class="extiw" title="w:Sikorsky H-34">Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse</a> helicopter of U.S. Marines squadron <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMR-262" class="extiw" title="w:HMR-262">HMR-262</a> from the aircraft carrier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lake_Champlain_(CV-39)" class="extiw" title="w:USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)">USS <i>Lake Champlain</i> (CVS-39)</a>, at the termination of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3" class="extiw" title="w:Mercury-Redstone 3">Mercury-Redstone 3</a>, the first U.S. suborbital human flight into space, at 27.23° N, 75.88° W, on 5 May 1961.
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