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Alan Shepard

CTL-E-4166 · Person · other · 1961

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First American to travel into space, aboard Freedom 7 (1961); Katherine Johnson calculated the mission's trajectory.

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Record CTL-E-4166 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: VERIFIED · 1 source (1 primary) · 1 mapped relationship · CTL research: RELP-001.
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