Crew members of the U.S. Navy Carrier Champlain cheer and take pictures of the arrival of the first Project Mercury pilot to fly a suborbital flight, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Two helecopters are approaching the ship, one carrying the astronaut and the other the capsule.

Catalog Date: 05 May 1961
Film Type: 8x10
NASA image: S61-02711