Mercury MR-3 Freedom 7

Artifact — Date: 2022 | Photo by: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum/Jim Preston

This capsule is in the new Destination Moon gallery at National Air and Space Museum. This capsule carried Alan Shepard, America's first astronaut.

Type: Mercury
Kind: Flight Vehicle
Flight: Freedom-7 (MR-3)
Location: National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.

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Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia

Date: 2022
Photos by: Chris Griffith

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

Date: 2005
Photos by: Chris Griffith