FREE: 1961 COMMEMORATIVE SILVER COIN PROJECT MERCURY ALLAN SHEPARD

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14.9 grams of .925 sterling silver
33 millimeters in diameter

commemorating the 1961 first manned united states space flight by astronaut allan b. shepard

front: red-stone rocket lifting off with flame jet and clouds of moon in background

back: moon below, orbiting mercury capsule with cutaway showing astronaut inside, earth in distance

allan shepard was pilot of the freedom seven mission, may, 1961 becoming the second person and first american to travel into space.
ten years later shepard would command apollo xiv and be the 5th man to walk on the moon

the mercury-red-stone launch vehicle was americas first manned space booster and a part of the red-stone ballistic missile series. it was used for 6 sub-orbital mercury flights


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