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Relive Alan Shepard's Harrowing Trip to Space With a View From His Cockpit

53 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the second human to visit space. The first person in space, Russian Yuri Gagarin, completed an orbit of the Earth almost a month before Shepard's 15-minute voyage. Gagarin's craft was fully automated, but Shepard had some control over the Freedom 7...

This might be the coolest thing that YouTube has to offer (and that says a lot). How did I not see this before? You can ride along with Alan Shepard' on his first flight! And...it's only about 14 minutes. This is a childhood Josh's dream come true!