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- Subject is exactly "Project Mercury (U.S.)"
[Astronaut Alan B. Shepard being hoisted aboard Sikorsky S-58 helicopter after Freedom 7 splashdown]
![[Astronaut Alan B. Shepard being hoisted aboard Sikorsky S-58 helicopter after Freedom 7 splashdown]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/38ef79dd270ebf0da3fad86b1bd67e9e.jpg "[Astronaut Alan B. Shepard being hoisted aboard Sikorsky S-58 helicopter after Freedom 7 splashdown]")
Photograph of astronaut Alan B. Shepard being hoisted aboard a U.S. Marine Sikorsky S-58 helicopter after the Freedom 7 splashdown, May 5, 1961. The Freedom 7 capsule is visible in the water below.
[Alan B. Shepard and Freedom 7 capsule aboard USS Lake Champlain]
![[Alan B. Shepard and Freedom 7 capsule aboard USS Lake Champlain]](https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/files/square_thumbnails/ec9c9f155eef7910718c4a2f6fa2f428.jpg "[Alan B. Shepard and Freedom 7 capsule aboard USS Lake Champlain]")
Photograph of astronaut Alan B. Shepard and the Freedom 7 capsule aboard the USS Lake Champlain (CV-39), May 5, 1961.