Results of the First U.S. Manned Suborbital Space Flight

Proceedings of the June 6 1961 conference on Alan Shepard’s May 5 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3 suborbital flight, held at the US Department of State Auditorium. Opened by NASA Deputy Administrator Hugh L. Dryden and Space Science Board chairman Lloyd V. Berkner, with sessions chaired by Abe Silverstein, C.H. Roadman, and Walter C. Williams; concludes with Shepard’s own pilot’s flight report, including in-flight films, and Berkner’s closing remarks.