File:HUS-1 recovering Mercury Shepard CVS-39 NAN6-61.jpg

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Description	English: A Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse (after 1962 UH-34E) of Marine squadron HMM-262 from the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39) retrieving the Freedom 7 spacecraft (Mercury-Redstone 3), 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).
Date	5 May 1961
Source	U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News June 1961 [1]
Author	USN
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