iAlan Shepard's Freedom 7 went up and came back down without circling Earth. That short flight made him the first American in space and shows how far the U.S. program still had to go to match Vostok 1.
iiAlan Shepard's Freedom 7 went up and came back down without circling Earth. That short flight made him the first American in space and shows how far the U.S. program still had to go to match Vostok 1.