Space Suit Evolution Since First NASA Flight

Space Suit Evolution Since First NASA Flight Alan Shepard: First American in Space
U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard poses in his silver pressure suit in a 1963 picture from the early days of NASA's Mercury space program. Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of Shepard becoming the first American in space, when he completed a short suborbital voyage aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft.

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