OFFICIAL PORTRAIT - MERCURY-REDSTONE (MR)-3 PILOT - ASTRONAUT SHEPARD, ALAN B., JR.

S63-02082 (5 May 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., attired in his Mercury pressure suit, poses for a photo prior to his launch in a Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on a suborbital mission ? the first U.S. manned spaceflight. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration