On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. had a view of Earth that no American had seen before, looking down on the home planet from the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule on his history makin suborbital flight.
The 15 minute flight lifted him to an altitude of over116 miles and a maximum speed of 5,134 miles per hour.
Durinbg the flight, Shepard reported seeing the outlines of the west coast of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, along wint Florida's Lake Okeechobee.
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