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en-wikipedia-org-2540		Space Race - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	18498	2090	70	On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, launching in a ballistic trajectory on Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7.[80] Though he did not achieve orbit like Gagarin, he was the first person to exercise manual control over his spacecraft's attitude and retro-rocket firing.[81] After his successful return, Shepard was celebrated as a national hero, honored with parades in Washington, New York and Los Angeles, and received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal from President John F.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2540.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2540.txt